According to a report on Gamesindustry.biz, certain areas of the PS3 technologies are being built in Sony’s UK development arm. The Playstation Network Platform is currently under development with the code name “Playstation HUB.” Other teams are working on PS3 backward compatibility — this will apparently be achieved through software emulation, rather than including the core PS2 hardware. The PS2’s high level of compatibility with the original Playstation was achieved by including the original Playstation hardware as a support chip. Gamers have seen the difficulties Microsoft has had in providing backwards compatibility through an emulation layer on the Xbox 360, so this could be a challenge for Sony, but Gamesindustry’s source indicates that the software is already working well, and that a number of original PS2 titles are already supported on the preliminary PS3 hardware.

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