I think for a lot of people it's clutter and the fact that when PS3 first launched, its ability to play PS2 games upscaled and smoothed was a bit bullet point. Sony even laughed at Microsoft for being crap at it. It's there own fault in a way because they set up this expectation with PS2 being backwards compatible with the original Playstation (the PS3 and PSP still are). They were clever with that though, as the PS1 hardware actually did a specific job in the PS2 when playing PS2 games, I/O and Audio stuff. The PS3 models that have the PS2 hardware inside them do not use that hardware when running PS3 software, it's only there for BC purposes, so when the machine was really expensive and they were not selling enough, they went on a major cost cutting drive, and the removal of PS2 hardware was one part of that.
I agree, people moaning about it are a bit silly, because if that is something really important to them, then they had the opportunity to have that. Strange thing is though, it's mainly those that moan about lack of PS2 BC that are the same people that moaned about the price of the PS3 when it had that feature. They only have themselves to blame. My PS3 is BC, but I never use it.
I agree, people moaning about it are a bit silly, because if that is something really important to them, then they had the opportunity to have that. Strange thing is though, it's mainly those that moan about lack of PS2 BC that are the same people that moaned about the price of the PS3 when it had that feature. They only have themselves to blame. My PS3 is BC, but I never use it.
