Is that my old format?

Backwards compatibility is something very important to me, don't get me wrong though, the future is the place to be, but it's always nice to see how far we've come. Plus some of the best games I've ever played are on older consoles. This is where Nintendo Wii shines, just plug in your old Gamecube controller, chunk in a memory card, slide your disc in and you're good to go.

Sadly the same can not be said about Sonys Playstation 3. I recently found a stack of PS2 games i thought I'd lost, so I rejoiced and then slid one into my PS3. Wouldn't you know it? my PS3 doesn't play PS2 games. I thought it just needed an update, so i plugged it in and waited the half hour it needed only to find... FAIL! still no joy. I got my PS3 when Metal Gear Solid 4 came out so it's not the oldest model you can get, but i did find that a friend of mine who got his on the launch date, does indeed have some backwards compatibility. Maybe you're thinking "why not just trade in your current one and get one of the new slim models?" Well i would but the first Playstation i got was a PS1, not a PSX but the slim version. I played it for about a month before it broke and the only repair i had available was to buy a new one. Moving on to my PS2, i got one of the old chunky ones and it worked for a long time before it died, then i purchased a slim one. Same deal, it was a piece of crap. Now if i want to play my old games i either have to buy an old Playstation or upgrade the one i have.

Naturally i choose the upgrade and i still run into problems. I've downloaded WipEout HD, Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Medieval and they are all saved onto the hard drive. Now if i buy a new slim version, I still get no love. Sony decided to give up on the whole backwards compatibility thing with the slim versions so if you want to play old games, you better have the old consoles. INFURIATING!

Should they have made a external hard drive like the Xbox? or made it so you can copy your data onto a memory card like the Wii? Either way i think Sony needs to have a good long, hard think before they release the Playstation 4.