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Best Buy Says PlayStation 3 80GB Is On Its Way Out [Update]
We've received multiple tips from readers—ones who also happen to be Best Buy employees—who have informed us that the North American retailer hasn't received stock of the PlayStation 3 80GB model for many weeks and is expected to discontinue carrying the model soon. According to our sources, Best Buy stores have also been asked to pull advertising materials related to the 80GB model, currently the only version that features PlayStation 2 backwards compatibility.
Rumors of a 120GB model have been spread to retail employees, but this conflicts with reports from other Best Buy moles who say that internal communications indicate only one model—the 40GB barebones edition—will be stocked after January 28th.
PS3 Fanboy has visual evidence of the notice to employees about the 80GB discontinuation, further proof that backwards compatibility may soon be a thing of the past. We've been bugging Sony about the situation all day, but have yet to receive anything other than a paraphrased "hold tight" about the rumors.
Update: It appears as though it's finally out. The 80GB model isn't showing on Best Buy's site.
Best Buy discontinuing 80GB PS3 [PS3 Fanboy]
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Xbox 360 Even More Backwards Compatible
Today is the day I put my original Xbox to rest. Larry Hryb has posted a list of newly backwards compatible titles for the Xbox 360, and with it my last non-compatible game, the brilliant Armed and Dangerous, now works in my 360. A little stuttering during the cut scenes, but the gameplay is solid and the humor intact. In fact, I nearly missed posting this story because I got wrapped up in playing, so it obviously works well enough. Armed and Dangerous is joined by Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, The Bard's Tale, and...The Guy Game, along with many more, bringing the BC list past the 300 mark. Hit the jump for the list in its entirety. *sigh* Goodbye, giant black box. I don't know I'll fill the space left in my entertainment center left by your passing. Perhaps a small island nation. More »
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GDC07: 360 BC Work Slowing
It may have been lost in the news yesterday, but right after the Microsoft Blogger Breakfast I cornered Chris Satchell to ask him about the future of the Xbox 360's backwards compatibility. More »
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Clip: PS3 BC Issues Popping Up
A Playstation 3 owner put together a little video to show what happens to Playstation 2 games when they are played on the PS3. The end result, he says the video appears to show, is that you get more jaggies and artifacts when playing a PS2 or PSone game on the new console than if you were to play it on the PS2. More »
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PS3 Backwards Compatibility Impressions
Playing a PS2 game on your PS3 seems relatively straight forward. More »
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Psychonauts Backwards Compatibility Still Coming
The last Xbox 360 backwards compatibility came and went, and there was much gnashing of teeth. "Where's Psychonauts?" asked the Internet's vast constabulary of fans of a game I've never been smart enough to appreciate. A yellowish loogie was perceived to arc from Microsoft's puckered lips into Tim Schaffer's face. More »
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48 New Backwards Compatible Games
A whole slew of shitty games and a handful of decent ones have finally crawled up the slimy pipe of backwards compatibility. Still no Psychonauts, Jet Set Radio Future or Prince of Persia: Two Thrones. More »
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Help Get Psychonauts on the 360!
I didn't like Psychonauts. That admission alone will cause some of you to wrongfully vilify me as some sort of monster. I'm not a monster. I tried to love it, I wanted to love it! I played two hours of Psychonauts, then quit: the game's quirky humor, much lauded by the same internet that finds Something Awful funny, was lost on me as I stared at the screen, my lips compressed into a grim, humorless line. Upon being forced to fight some stupid tank that I couldn't figure out how to beat, I quit in disgust and went out to beat a baby to death with a bag full of kittens. More »
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Sony To Cram PS2 into PS3
Well, that's one way to handle the backwards compatibility problem. Via IGN, Japan's Ultra One magazine is claiming that the PS3 will contain the PS2 core chipset. The plan is to continue working on a software emulator; once that is perfected, they'll dump the PS2 chips for future iterations. More »
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Msoft <3's Backwards Compatibility, Really!!
Ignore the tattooed man in the interview. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Despite Peter Moore's assertations that gamers don't care about backwards compatibility, Microsoft has reiterated their support of old Xbox games. More »
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Poll: Backwards Compatability, Do You Care?
When Peter Moore said gamers don't care about backwards compatibility on the Xbox 360 I thought he couldn't be more wrong. But judging by the comments in our post about it, it sounds like he may not be totally off base. So to get to the bottom of things were going to run a poll and see just how passionate gamers are about their outdated Halos and Project Gotham Racings. More »
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Three Xbox Games Added 360 BC List
Yesterday we posted that the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility list has been updated, today I've got the goodies on which games have been added and which got updates. More »
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Revised XBox 360 Backwards Compatibility List
A shameful admission: we don't have the XBox 360 backwards compatibility list memorized, or scrawled at straight-razor edge onto our forearms. So we have no idea what's been newly added to the XBox 360 backwards compatibility list. We're sorry, we know that lets you down. But if you're a rabid XBoxer with both an Incredible Hulk and Bruce Lee Inhaling model, you may be able to peruse this updated list from Microsoft and see if that title you've been itching to play again has been added. More »
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Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility Kneecapped for '06
ActiveXbox is reporting that Microsoft's David Reid has confirmed that the next Xbox 360 backwards-compatibility (BC) update won't be hitting until March. More »
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New PlayStation 2 Version is Moody With Older Games
IGN is reporting that the silver PlayStation 2 isn't as backwards compatible as its predecessors. Some older titles are having problems running on the hardware. It's an annoyance that a handful of PlayStation 2 games are having problems on the unit, but the majority of games having issues are PSOne games. The last time I turned on a PSOne game, it was probably on my original PlayStation, anyway.
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