Going Backwards

Life never works out as you expect it to, even when it comes to games. When Sony first launched the playstation3, they stressed on including backward compartibility as an added incentive for the long term investment their users have invested on them, especially those who owned all their previous consoles. Later on, as a cost-cutting measurement the backward compartibility via hardware emulation was dropped in favour of software emulation. Now even that is becoming scarce as the need of BC-hardware in this region is just not as relevant given the rampant piracy problem of the past console.

Given my retro gaming nature, BC is a big deal for me in fact analysts are still unsure how big of a factor BC is when it comes to driving the sales of a new hardware but it certainly doesn't hurt to include it. I have amassed a collection of mostly NTSC-J games but it seems like now i might be getting a US region PS3 after all now that production for 80GB in this region has ceased. While i do have a fair collection of some of my favourite games on NTSC U/C region too, i can't really say i anticipated this. Either way, i stand to miss out on playing some of my favourite games once i finally settle on which region PS3 i'm getting.