Oh dear. Sony has admitted that some games designed for the older PlayStation consoles are not working properly on the newly released PlayStation 3…
The PlayStation 3 was supposed to be fully “backwards compatible”, meaning it should run games written for PSone and PlayStation 2.
Sony said that the audio features do not work on some titles, while others have problems with the graphics.
It has offered to fix the PS3 problems via online upgrades for consoles.
Japanese newspaper Sankei has reported that the problems affect about 200 games sold for the original PlayStation and the PlayStation 2. Sony has declined to give numbers.
Games affected are believed to include the popular real driving simulator Gran Turismo and the epic role-playing game Final Fantasy.
Glitches of this nature are quite common when the initial batches of new consoles are released. Sony’s rival Microsoft also received complaints about scratched disks when it launched the Xbox, and other consoles have had compatibility issues.
The Japanese firm said that this next generation console is seen as its most important strategic product of the year, and it is intended to go head-to-head with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s upcoming Wii console.
The PlayStation 3 was originally supposed to go on sale in early 2006, but production problems and shortages of key components (including parts of the new Blu-Ray) forced a delay. The European launch of the console has been pushed back to March 2007.
This has also meant that there are only 80,000 consoles for gamers in Japan. (In actual fact, 80,400 units were sold, with the 60GB model and a copy of Ridge Racer 7 selling the most).
Sony said 400,000 should be available for the American launch on November 17th. Despite the shortages, Sony said it was confident of shipping six million PS3s by the end of March 2007.
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