Rumor: PS2 games coming to Playstation Store?

yeah there are and they are doing it for xbox too

Thats great 4 both systems, and well put more money in sony pocket and adds more play depth of games 4 players and we can relive some classics, now we need to know what these gems well cost us.

$25 is a little ridiculous for mgs2 considering 3 n 4 r out sony as to get better with these prices but it could b due to the fact that its downloadable to yo system. who knows.

Agreed! I won't pay $25 for a PS2 game. I'm sure sony well come down on the price, If PPL don't start buying the PS2 downloads when they hit the PSN, I think $15 is a fair price for the basic ps2 game and maybe $20 tops.

I don't think $20 would be a good price for these games as you can probably get most of them for that now brand new at the store if you still have a ps2 to play them on. It sucks that they didn't make the new one backward compatable as for me that was the selling point for the ps2(never did get one though). I still have my original xbox and now a Wii but was thinking about trying to con my parents into buying me a ps3 for xmas this year or maybe an xbox360. I'm still not sold on which system to get I like the 360 when it came out with having halo and such but with all the problems I've heard about it I'm still holding back on it. Also 360 getting the deal for the next FF stumps me a bit but I still think 7 was the best so far so that might not be much of a deal maker/breaker for me.

Agreed!

Lets say $15 for a top ps2 game and $8 for the basic title... which these prices are probably wishful thinking. If you can con your parents into getting you a ps3 for xmas at the age of 31 let me know your secret because my parents said I was on my own when I was 18... you know the old fresh prince of bel-air saying "sometimes parents just don't understand" LOL!... If you decide to get a 360 got to the 360 forum and I have a topic posted on the new 360 slim that will hit in late 09 and "hopefully" be a more reliable system that the current 360 with its "ridiculously high" 71% failure rate.

GO witha Ps3 dawg . sony is about to have a monster yr if everything goes according to plan u will not be disappointed.

xXBlackiceXx wrote:

GO witha Ps3 dawg . sony is about to have a monster yr if everything goes according to plan u will not be disappointed.

AGREED!

Xbox has had it for a while, but this image is photoshopped.

And that 71% failure rate is bullshit, first of all that wasn't the real percentage even then, but in Fall of 07 microsoft added the falcon chip to the consoles which prevented the red ring.

they should lower the prices

Fudopi wrote:

Xbox has had it for a while, but this image is photoshopped.

And that 71% failure rate is bullshit, first of all that wasn't the real percentage even then, but in Fall of 07 microsoft added the falcon chip to the consoles which prevented the red ring.

Fudopi, if the 71% failure rate is bull s*** than tell me why its coasted MS more than 3 billion to fix the defective 360 that they shipped out to customers and "why" they extend the warranty to 3 years... Pulse the "falcon chip" didn't fix the RROD problem... players are still getting the RROD with that chip and disc drive failures as well. The system is flawed by design and thats why in 09 we'll see a 360 slim made by "another company". Here is a article to read that states that the 360 had a failure of 60% but they said these estimates were probably lower since MS has repaired these units... I don't take that into to account, when I give my estimates. I take into account of total sales and total system failures and thats about 71%.

Here is a article that you can read to give yourself better clarity on this matter and this defective system... take into account this article is almost a year old. I wonder how more many 360 have failed since this estimate was released
Three red lights on the Xbox 360 ring piece indicator representing "general hardware failure", commonly referred to as the "Red Ring of Death" (RRoD)


The Xbox 360 video game console is subject to a number of technical problems that can render it unusable. Some, but not all, of these problems are identified as "general hardware failures," and are indicated by three flashing red lights around the power button. Since its release in 2005, many articles have appeared in the media portraying the Xbox 360's relatively high failure rates. The three "flashing red lights" have been nicknamed in these articles as the "Red Ring of Death" (or "RRoD").^[1][2][3]
Several video game blogs, newspapers, and magazines (Such as Wired, Kotaku, Joystiq, The Inquirer, GamePro, G4, and several others) reported on an interview by a Seattle PI Reader Blog "Digital Joystick" with a confidential source inside Microsoft by the name "xboxfounder". It reported that this source was a team leader and key architect in the creation of the Xbox and Xbox 360 and a founding member of the Xbox team and has since left the company but maintained close ties to the remaining Xbox team.^[4][5]
The interviews suggest that Xbox 360 units that fail early in their life do so because of problems in the system design, parts supply, material reliability, and manufacturing issues as well as a system not tolerant to faults. These issues were alleged to be the end results of the decisions of management in Microsoft's Xbox team and inadequate testing resources prior to the console's release. Other websites claim the insider's authenticity has been confirmed.^[6][7]
In the early months after the console's launch, Microsoft stated that the Xbox 360's failure rate was within the consumer electronics industry average of 3% to 5%.^{[8][9][10][11]} Nevertheless, Microsoft has not released their official statistics on the failure rate of the various versions of the console; the company's press relations policy is to focus on the prompt resolution of any technical problems.^[12] In February 2008 an examination of 1040 Xbox 360s by SquareTrade found a 16.4% failure rate; 171 were returned under warranty as "disabled", 60% of which with general hardware failure,^[13][14]. However SquareTrade also admits that their estimates are likely much lower than reality, due to many owners of failed consoles who are getting them repaired directly via Microsoft, they also note that the consoles were only tracked for 6-10 months, and in the longer term, many more consoles will have failed. This ties in with most other sources claiming 30%-40% failure rates, and 10% on even the more recent models. ^[15]
On July 5, 2007, the Vice-President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division published an open letter recognizing the console's problems, as well as announcing a three-year warranty extension for every Xbox 360 console that experiences the "general hardware failure" indicated by three flashing red LEDs on the console.^[16] During GDC 08, Microsoft announced that the "Failure rate has officially dropped".

Arent there already PS ONe games in the store...i bought RAYMAN bout a week ago, its a PS1 game

Cowboys101 wrote:

Arent there already PS ONe games in the store...i bought RAYMAN bout a week ago, its a PS1 game

Yes! ps1 games are already available on the PSN. Street Fighter Alpha " warrior dreams" just hit the store.... "Plus" can be played on the PSP as well. Were talking about PS2 games that are supposed to hit the store sometime at the end of the year.

Fudopi wrote:

Xbox has had it for a while, but this image is photoshopped.

And that 71% failure rate is bullshit, first of all that wasn't the real percentage even then, but in Fall of 07 microsoft added the falcon chip to the consoles which prevented the red ring.

Just some more stuff to read about this great system.

Xbox 360 RROD Fiasco Caused by Cheap Chip Design



Posted by Jonathan on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 4:08 pm under Game Companies, Game Consoles, Gamer Life, Games Industry, Hardware, Microsoft, Microsoft


I’m sure we’re all familiar with the “Red Ring of Death” problems that have plagued millions of Xbox 360s and cost Microsoft billions of dollars in warranty repairs so far. But now, nearly a year after this whole thing came to light, we’re just now learning the source of the numerous hardware failures. As expected, the consoles’ overheating problems were all due to a cheap component. Bryan Lewis, research vice president and chief analyst at Gartner, revealed the exact source of the hardwar failures rather casually at the Design Automation Conference. It seems that, rather than use an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) vendor to make the chipset, Microsoft decided to design the component on their own and have it manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. The move was intended to save the company tens of millions of dollars, but instead…well, you know the rest of that story. To fix the problems for future hardware though, it looks like MS went back to using an ASIC vendor.

This is a pretty big revelation though considering that, up until now, all we had heard was that the problem has something to do with the “design” of the console. Hopefully, Microsoft has learned that it doesn’t always pay to be cheap (yeah, I doubt it too).



The cheap designed motherboard is the cause of the over heating problems and as I said B4 were not talking about the cheap "disc drive" they instaled as well on the 360 that scratches your games.... the 360 is a poor designed, none reliable, money sucking gaming machine... In this article is says that they hope MS has learned not to be cheap... lets hope that gamers have learned this as well and buy a reliable system like the PS3 and they can actually start "playing b3yond" instead of "paying beyond" what a system wroth.