Jack Tretton says BC is out!

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You guys have to start knowing how to translate corporate talk

Here it goes:

On backwards compatibility: Jack explained that Sony looked at how to "to maximize profit like every other company out there, without losing our Customers ... We totally have a software based solution available now. ... but we're selling PS2 software to PS2 customers for as long as they'll be paying for it, and selling PS3 software to PS3 consumers as we have to show good sales on PS3 games to strengthen our numbers." Still, Jack seems to feel like it may have been the wrong move. "I would like to have had it in there if it had been proven that it was a selling point, but Sony's collective strategy determined we could afford to lose it because people weren't really willing to pay an additional $100 for it. We've now gone down that road but might come back to it if it proved valuable to retain/increase our customer base, and we're not going back until then as long as it'll be more profitable to not go there."

Never say never in Business

The moment their analysts say that they can do a $299/$249 PS3 and that MS does a $199 360 at which point a ton of PS2 owners will be ready to jump to the next gen consoles, amazingly enough, BC will reappear to retain the user base.

Mark my words