JPSep 3, 2018
Sony stopped making new PlayStation 2s in 2012, and in a few days the last vestige of support will end: https://www.usgamer.net/articles/ps2-is-finally-dead-18-years-after-release
Given that it's the best selling console of all time and its catalog is extremely significant, it deserves a better preservation effort than it's gotten. I wish PCSX2 were as far along and robust as Dolphin. I wish Sony had bothered with a 100% software back-compat solution for PS3/PS4, and that people in the industry hadn't been so dismissive of that.
PS2 is Finally Dead, 18 Years After Release

Goodnight, sweet prince.

Show threadJPSep 3, 2018
The dismissal of platform-level back compat (ie put a PS2 disc into your PS3/PS4 and it Just Works) always leaned hard on murky platform holder anecdata like "people request this more often than they actually use and value it". And it's like, well you never really offered it for reals so you have no idea what the real demand was.
Show threadLuci RocksSep 3, 2018
is PS2 emulation a hard enough problem to cut sony some slack here? and I don’t really mean sony the corporation but- yknow- the actual people that would have to build shit to make those features work.
Show threadLuci Rocks
I recall recently reading that the people tasked with porting ff7 to windows were given literally nothung other than the PSX disc data. all the source files and source assets are all gone. same thing happened with okami. these people don’t seem all that organised
Sep 3, 2018 at 3:29pmWeb