Ozymandias on backwards compatibility: price cut time!

So the PS3’s backwards compatibility may be getting a nerf of sorts, but does it mean a price cut for Sony‘s cash cow is under way? Well, according to one Microsoft blogger, that may very well be the case.

Ozymandias, otherwise known as Andre Vrignaud, made some predictions early in January about the state of the console wars. According to his new statements, the gimping of backwards compatibility may very well be the first step towards lowering PS3 costs overall:

This is likely a step on that path. I believe the PS3 enabled backward compatibility by basically including PS2 silicon in the box. That hardware has likely been removed to reduce costs, and the PS3 is now moving toward software-emulated backward compatibility. Notice the new focus on firmware upgrades for enabling backcompat?… All of which means the backcompat story is likely to be very similar between the PS3 and the 360 going forward.

Whether or not this is true, we still wish they wouldn’t gimp backwards compatibility. That’s one of the fun draws of the console. Hopefully, the price cut will actually make it worth the trouble.

So the PS3’s backwards compatibility may be getting a nerf of sorts, but does it mean a price cut for Sony‘s cash cow is under way? Well, according to one Microsoft blogger, that may very well be the case.

Ozymandias, otherwise known as Andre Vrignaud, made some predictions early in January about the state of the console wars. According to his new statements, the gimping of backwards compatibility may very well be the first step towards lowering PS3 costs overall:

This is likely a step on that path. I believe the PS3 enabled backward compatibility by basically including PS2 silicon in the box. That hardware has likely been removed to reduce costs, and the PS3 is now moving toward software-emulated backward compatibility. Notice the new focus on firmware upgrades for enabling backcompat?… All of which means the backcompat story is likely to be very similar between the PS3 and the 360 going forward.

Whether or not this is true, we still wish they wouldn’t gimp backwards compatibility. That’s one of the fun draws of the console. Hopefully, the price cut will actually make it worth the trouble.