PS3 Struggles With Older Games
Despite its earlier boasting to the contrary, Sony is finding out that making its back catalogue work on the PS3 is not as easy as it thought.
Sony may have spoken too fast when it said that the PlayStation 3 would be compatible with the thousands of past PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games. The company has admitted that it's having problems, though it is already working on a fix.
GT4 is one of games reportedly having problems on PS3Around 200 offending titles have already been fingered, according to a Reuters report based on an article in the Sankei Shimbun. A Sony representative told Reuters that the company is wading through the 8,000-plus games from previous consoles.
And it's not just trivial titles that are being affected. Games that use the PlayStation 2 hard drive won't work properly on the new system, neither will entries in such popular series as Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo, Devil May Cry and more.
The headaches should only be temporary. Sony's Satoshi Fukuoka said that the company is planning to get around these problems with a software update.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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