Sony has revealed that 1,782 PlayStation 2 titles will be playable on the PlayStation 3 when it launches in Europe this Friday. "Our engineers have been working overtime, and have succeeded in ...

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 ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

Sony has confirmed that the new model PlayStation 3 for Europe has had its backwards compatibility reduced due to costs. Sony released the final specifications for the Euro PS3 last week, revealing ...

Despite the PS3 being the greatest home entertainment/gaming machine in history, people are reluctant to move on from their trusty, much-loved PS2s. You can’t blame ’em, as good games are still coming ...

Not all PS2 models are created equal when it comes to backwards compatibility. Here are the key differences: Original PS2 Models: These models generally have excellent backwards compatibility with PS1 ...

I posit that Sony's rumored plan to introduce a backwards-compatibility device for the PlayStation 3 has an underlying motive of bulking up an already sizeable console. But that won't stop you from ...

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.

Sony has acknowledged that backwards compatibility was a unique and much-welcomed feature before it was dropped in the PS4 generation. It has long been assumed that a shift in console architectures is ...