PS3 to be backwards-compatible

[PureEvil]

Originally Posted by jeepnut

By forever, do they mean that 25 years from now, we will still be able to play PSone games on our PS7s? Doesn't the current PS2 have a PSone chip built in? If I'm not mistaken, won't those chips begin to add up and take up considerable space? This is of course assuming current ways of doing things remain somewhat the same.

That's where technology comes into play.

Engineers constantly package more and more stuff into smaller and smaller physical things.

Computers, for example, used to take up a whole room or whatever. Same with cell phones, cd players, and so on and so forth (er, I don't mean cell phones and cd players used to take up a whole room; Just that they used to be way bigger).

At least with Sony doing this, my older games won't get shoved into a closet somewhere (As was the case with NES, SNES, N64, and all that schtuff).