[quote name='dmdragon']I'm tell you, if Sony came out with a new model that has backwards compatibility they would double their sales and leave xbox and wii in the dust in sales.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, because playing old PS2 games is the thing that is holding Average Joe back from purchasing a PS3 these days. The reality is backwards compatibility is no longer a very important feature, this was not the case when the system first launched and there wasn't much of a library of PS3 games. Back then the time between great titles was much longer than it is now, so people would go back to highly regarded classics that they might have missed the first time around, which made the backwards compatibility feature a valuable one to the early PS3 adopters...