According to an article over at Game Daily Biz, Sony President Ken Katuragi has explained in detail just how they will be working in backwards compatibility with their Playstation 3 console. According the Kutaragi, a combination of hardware and software will make it possible to play PS2 and indeed PS1 games on the PS3 which is expected to launch in Spring of 2006.The Sony Boss also took time out to launch another attack on team Xbox 360.
The current Xbox will become antiquated once the new machine comes out this November. When that happens, the Xbox will be killing itself. The only way to avoid that is to support 100 percent compatibility from its [Xbox 360's] launch date, but Microsoft won't be able to commit to that. It's technically difficult.
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