BEWARE - PS3 crippled in Euro launch

rick_x

Sony released a statement today stating that the final Euro-spec for the PS3 will NOT be fully backward compatible with PS2 titles like the US and JAP versions are. In order to cut costs they've removed the Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesiser chips (PS2 chips) in the Euro model. The fact that they won't say how many titles are compatible (via software) until launch suggests it's going to be nowhere near the 98% our US and Japanese cousins have.

This news comes weeks after a pre-order campaign and does not come with any price cuts so in effect we're subsidising cheaper US and Japanese consoles with better specifications.

I've cancelled my pre-order, I strongly urge others to do so to send a message to Sony that this simply is the last straw (launch delay, more expensive than US/JAP and even EURO prices, less functionality).

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=158696

snowf1ake

That really is the final straw. I will be moving the the Wii and I'll let them know.

normal

Press release here

webuserisme

Once Microsoft got involved in the console market, the writing was on the wall for even such a massive corporation as Sony. Having said that, I think their almost inevitable demise is more to do with their own incredible arrogance than anything Microsoft has done.

crompton

webuserisme wrote:

Once Microsoft got involved in the console market, the writing was on the wall for even such a massive corporation as Sony. Having said that, I think their almost inevitable demise is more to do with their own incredible arrogance than anything Microsoft has done.

I couldnt agree more

ovetta2001

the PS3 is going to be 80% compat. with the old games. Instead of 98%. At the proce....HELL NO

PeteHerts

Hmmmm looks like everyone is getting onto the Rip-off Britain bandwagon but its not surprising when our own companies try to rip us off and charge through the nose!

teeb

Yet another reason not to waste £425.

fishfinger

For what it's worth I have emailed them my thoughts on this matter.

pingu

fishfinger wrote:

For what it's worth I have emailed them my thoughts on this matter.

wish more and more people do the that so greedy companies like sony get the message!

thanks

devild_2

simple answer don't buy it