No emotion chip in new PS3

black_wing79 | July 10, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 Gaming Tech/Hardware

The new and heavily anticipated 80 GB PS3 will not have an emotion chip for backwards compatibility according to news from Gamesindustry.biz. This means that people who want to paly older games on the new PS3 will have to continually download updates for their 80GB console.

With news of Sony's 80GB model PlayStation 3 comes word that the new console will eliminate the PS2 "emotion engine' chip.

"The current 60 GB model utilizes a hardware and solution for backwards compatibility, namely the Emotion Engine chip," said SCEA's Kimberly Otzman. "The new 80 GB PS3 will use a software solution for backwards compatibility, similar to that currently found in the PAL model."

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Final Blade | July 10, 2007

Well this is what i like to call good move. This was probably the reason they lowered the price. Good move. Lets wait and see.
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MusiKon | July 10, 2007

Will this mean some American PS/PS2 titles will be lost until further software updates?
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  Final Blade | July 10, 2007
  
  No i think currently its only for 80GB version. But it could change to all of them.
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FRoGBuster | July 11, 2007

SO the emotion chip is better, since it can emulate ALL games?
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ZhaoYun88 | July 11, 2007

I bet Sont arent to happy about that, with the problems already they have had with backward compatable games
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Deviant | July 11, 2007

So, you can't play the older games on it? People won't be too happy about that.