Japanese Magazine Ultra One today told us that Sony is going to be including PS2 hardware in PS3s in order to provide complete (or close to complete) backward compatibility with previous generation games. Something which Sony believes is key to the success of the PS3. Interestingly it seems this extra hardware is only required because Sony hasn’t cracked the emulation software they planed to use to provide these capabilities. Sony insist that this hardware is a temporary measure for the initial launch of the console until they have the emulation software finalised – at which point this extra hardware will be removed. In the mean time Sony is going to have to swallow all the extra costs associated with the inclusion of this extra hardware. Although at Widgx we have an idea – since every single person in the world (almost) owns a PS2 then why not just forget about the backward compatibility all together – and then slash a chunk off the ridiculous asking price of the PS3? Sony are you listening!