Sony Europe: Over 1000 PS2 titles to be backwards compatible on Playstation 3

Sony found itself in a public relations nightmare after it admitted that the Playstation 3 consoles being shipped to Europe would have lesser support for the older generation Playstation 2 games.

The company has now clarified that the console at launch time would support over 1000 existing Playstation 2 titles.

Sony’s Phil Harrison said in a statement to a company blog: “The situation is changing every day, but on March 23, we expect the list to include over 1,000 PS2 titles. We can’t give any information about specific titles but, clearly, that would be our policy.”

The company has revealed that they were removing a chip (designed for backward compatibility) from the units being shipped to Europe. This was to cut the costs of the unit as well to speed up the production.

Harrison said on this aspect: “Price reductions are something that we wouldn’t comment on specifically. But you know the business model very well - we strive to get the cost of manufacturing down as soon as possible, and as soon as we can pass cost savings onto the consumers, we will.”