PlayStation 3 Firmware 1.80: Unable to solve PAL backwards compatibility problems

Many of you guys are probably enjoying the PS3 firmware 1.80 already, but life would’ve been better if PAL owners got their backwards compatibility problem fixed. Sony promised to make up for the lack of Emotion Engine from European units with software updates, but it looks like now is not the time yet.

Kotaku claims that they sent SCEE an inquiry about changes on PAL backwards compatibility, and here’s what they got:

This upgrade focused on upscaling and there were no significant backward compatibility enhancements. As we have pointed out on many occasions, our engineer’s focus is now on innovative applications and services for PS3 and not B/C, so you are not going to see major changes in future updates.

What happened to the promise of more playable PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games for the PS3? We’d love to hear Sony‘s answer to that.

Via Kotaku

Many of you guys are probably enjoying the PS3 firmware 1.80 already, but life would’ve been better if PAL owners got their backwards compatibility problem fixed. Sony promised to make up for the lack of Emotion Engine from European units with software updates, but it looks like now is not the time yet.

Kotaku claims that they sent SCEE an inquiry about changes on PAL backwards compatibility, and here’s what they got:

This upgrade focused on upscaling and there were no significant backward compatibility enhancements. As we have pointed out on many occasions, our engineer’s focus is now on innovative applications and services for PS3 and not B/C, so you are not going to see major changes in future updates.

What happened to the promise of more playable PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games for the PS3? We’d love to hear Sony‘s answer to that.

Via Kotaku