[quote name='silent h3ro']Yeah I also won't be surprised if we see software emulation to be released in new PS3 consoles later on. The PS2 is an old console and it should not be difficult at all to emulate on the PS3.[/quote]
I read somewhere that it takes roughly 8-16x the hardware power of the system you're emulating to emulate the system. But of course this is PlayStation architecture, so emulating PS2 on PS3 would be much easier than on, say 360, or even on PC.
Anyway, my point is that it's possible, and I think they will do it. (But then again, if it was possible, why did they put PS2 hardware in the original PS3s?)
Well, whatever. I don't plan to let go of my PS2, but I'm really disappointed at how they dropped the backward compatibility ball. They dropped a lot of balls this generation, and I really want to see them picked back up again.