Playstation 3 Backwards Compatibility

The Backwards Compatibility of Your Sony Playstation 3

The world of video gaming is one of constant change and revision. Game consoles live a short five year lifespan and games usually only last a year or so before a bigger, better version is released. For that reason, developers are constantly scrambling to offer the best technology and newest, most amazing game they can. Unfortunately, consumers cannot afford to keep up with this steep technology curve. For that reason, developers need to offer the backwards computability gamers demand in their new consoles.

No one wants to purchase multiple consoles to play games released by the same company. Who has the room for three major console releases from each company in their living room? It’s just not feasible and it’s definitely not affordable. Backwards compatibility ensures that consumers can access all of the newest games on the market alongside those classics in their closet.

In the Playstation 3, backwards compatibility is a feature built into the machine allowing it to play games that were not designed for its specific hardware. It emulates the necessary hardware techniques to run games from over a decade ago.

Any game released on a Playstation console can be played on the Playstation 3. You can access Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 games along with your brand new Playstation 3 games on the same console, a feature gamers have come to love and expect from their game consoles.

In essence, this feature makes your Playstation 3 a veritable gold mine of potential entertainment options. Obviously you can play the games designed for the console and the Blue Ray movies and music that it is designed to read. However, with Backwards compatibility you can also play any of the nearly 2000 games released for previous consoles. There are some incredible games from the past, including Final Fantasy VII-XII and Metal Gear Solid. You could play any of the amazing early Tekken games or Gran Turismo while waiting for their next installments on the Playstation 3 itself.

There are hundreds of great games to choose from and all of them are much cheaper than the games currently being released. For those that haven’t had a chance to enjoy them yet, there are amazing games in the dozens for less than $20 that you can play on your Playstation 3 with the backwards compatibility built in.