PS3 to be backwards-compatible

[Dylflon]

Originally Posted by jeepnut

By forever, do they mean that 25 years from now, we will still be able to play PSone games on our PS7s? Doesn't the current PS2 have a PSone chip built in? If I'm not mistaken, won't those chips begin to add up and take up considerable space? This is of course assuming current ways of doing things remain somewhat the same.

They say they use emulation technology to make it possible to play PS1 on PS3.