About 200 PS2 games won’t play on next generation gaming console

Playstation 3 stumbles over backward compatibility

Sony’s new Playstation 3 gaming console is having trouble with playing about 200 older game titles that were designed for the PS2, Sony has acknowledged.

There are about 8,000 game titles available for the console today. About 2.5 per cent of those have issues ranging from missing sound or a complete inability to run.

Sony has promised that it will develop a patch that will be made available through an online software update.

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