Japanese Magazine Ultra One says Sony is including the PS2 hardware in PS3s in order to provide complete (or close to complete) backward compatibility with previous generation games. Sony is looking ...

Nick Baker has claimed on the latest XboxEra podcast via an anonymous source that Sony is working on ‘select’ PS3 backwards compatibility, allowing them to be played natively on the PS5. “Sony is ...

Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb has revealed that he’s also heard that Sony is quietly working on PS3 backwards compatibility for the PS5, following yesterday’s reports from XboxEra’s Nick Baker that the ...

The rumor in question comes from XboxEra’s Nick “Spheshal_Nick” Baker, who has somewhat of a mixed reputation when it comes to leaks. However, as of late, Baker has been spot on with nearly all of his ...

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Sony has explained why PS2 backwards compatibility was left out of the PS3 Slim. The firm's director of marketing John Kollar said that only a fraction of users want to play PS2 games on the system.

So, since Shadow of the Colossus flew up onto my "best-games-ever" list, I thought I'd go back and play ICO. I borrow a copy from a friend, stick it in my PS2, and...get a nasty, nasty grinding noise.

The European version of PlayStation 3 will play fewer PlayStation 2 video games compared with models launched earlier in Japan and America, Sony said Friday. "The backwards compatibility is not going ...

Sony has said that selling the 40Gb PlayStation 3 at a low price was more important to gamers than offering any backwards compatibility with PlayStation 2 games. The firm has come under fire from ...