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I made the case a few years ago that I would love an external box that contains a shrunk down cell CPU with Emotion Engine that you could buy and hook up to a PS4 or PS5 that allowed them to have complete backward compatibility (well as complete as you're getting at that point, the Emotion Engine was only compatible with around 94% of PS2 titles). That way the people that want the BC can pay for it and everyone else who doesn't end up ever using it wouldn't have to pay for it.

There's a lot of challenges, namely that IBM isn't about to start producing Cell processors again, nor that the R&D necessary to shrink the die size down from a 45nm die to something more modern like a 10 nm die would be economically feasible, short of charging around $200-$250 or more per box, since the purchasers would have to absorb all the expenses as no one would be making new games to offset the costs sunk in bringing it to market. 

Despite the real life difficulties making such a thing unlikely, I would make immediate plans to buy a PS5 and a BC accessory if such a plan ever came to life. I'm in.

An add-on like this is an extremely smart idea. I can see myself paying for something like this. You would think that with the technology and advances that we have nowadays a feature like this would easily be accomplished. I can imagine the main reasons why they haven't done this is, outside of logistical and manufacturing concerns, because they don't see much of a market for it.

But outside of hardware add-ons, from a software point of view, Sony could easily allow more PS1 & PS2 to be offered on the console through emulation or via PS Now, but well, they don't do this. Even PSP games could be offered as well. All of these legacy systems can easily be emulated in other devices via homebrew and stuff. Surely, an official alternative wouldn't be too hard to do either.

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It's impressive the number of bugs and performance issues one has to experience in Fallout 3. What's more impressive, though, is that the developers never went back to address those issues at the time. Sounds like an optimization patch was in high order to make the game more playable. Pretty sure the PC version already must've gotten optimized by fans at this point already, but the console versions had to remain with all of these issues. That's one thing that kind of puts me against enjoying these unique games on PS3 (I own both 3 & New Vegas), the fear of going over that save file threshold, and the game becoming damn nigh unplayable because of that.

Seeing as you're fresh right now playing the game, wouldn't it be possible to start a new save file and go straight for the trophies that you're missing without playing the rest of the game? Or do you need to carry over your current progress, stats, and equipment to be able to obtain the trophies you're missing?

You have a great selection of PS3 games to enjoy for the next few months I'd say. Dragon's Crown is sweet, loved the art style and the gameplay itself. It does get repetitive because it's a beat 'em up and the trophies require you to go through the game a bazillion times, but it's a damn good time, especially if you play co-op. Wait till you see Kamitani's artwork on the girls. 👌

The Modern Warfare games are excellent as well. Neptunia, I own all of the Vita games digitally but so far I've only played ReBirth 1. It was good. A bit too grindy but enjoyable, especially the characters, the story, and the references. I've heard the very first PS3 game is awfully bad. Like, the developers hadn't gotten a hand of the formula of the franchise yet, so it might be a very raw experience.

To be far its from the link comes from a seller Over9k Store on my end not Amazon.

Yeah as said above, it's usually all third party sellers sending these games under one big shiny main page that looks more like Amazon or Sony themselves is still selling the game (they're not). If you don't plan on getting DLC then you may want to return it and just say you were sent the European version of the game and not the US version, but otherwise it should play fine

To add to what @BlindMango said - if the seller is anything like i was when I was selling stuff on Amazon, it was probably an honest mistake, and if you contact them, they will probably just do what I did when (on occasion) similar stuff happened with wrong- region dvds - they will probably just refund your money and say to keep the product, as it’s more hassle than it’s worth to receive it again, relist it correctly and repackage for a new seller!

Bearing in mind - that is - that a lot of these ‘stores’ are actually just a person.selling off their old stuff - like I was!

@ResoluteRock I am well aware of that notorious issue (it started for me when I hit the 26-ish hour mark and my save file reached the dreaded 8 to 9 MB mark). Been dealing with it (frame rate issues, soft-locking/freezing, and other performance woes) for the past 34 hours of in-game playtime (see below):

I put eleven hours into Fallout 3: GotY Edition over this past weekend, taking my in-game playtime from around 49 hours to nearly 61 hours of gameplay. Just wished that the game didn't all of these annoying problems with it on the Playstation 3 (shame that Bethesda never managed to fix the game properly), for it is the one major factor that prevents Fallout 3 from getting a near-perfect score from me (without issues, this game would easily be a 9.70 out of 10...however, with all of the annoying bugs/issues/woes the game suffers from after your save file reaches 9MB, I end up dropping the score down to a 7.75 out of 10).

@PooPooBlast I'd still recommend that you look into the game one of these days. For the most part (up until your save file reaches around 9MB), the game runs fine without too many issues and is still fun to play, even after all of these years. However, once you reach that dreaded 8MB/9MB on your save file, it all starts going downhill from there (frame rate starts acting up, loading areas/saves starts taking longer, game will start freezing/soft-locking your PS3 on a infrequent basis). If you have a PS3, I'd recommend playing it (getting the majority of the trophies for the game isn't too hard, only a handful that are annoying to get or are missable/buggy).

Besides, the trophy guide for the game (and the 5 DLC expansions) here on PSNP is quite helpful if you do need some guidance when going after all of the trophies for the game. As long as you can overlook some of the issues the game develops when you reach the 8MB/9MB file size, you should be able to enjoy the game. Just bring some patience, make saving on a regular basis (in my case, every 10 or so minutes after reaching 9MB file size) a priority, and try to enjoy what Bethesda was trying to deliver, even if it does all start to slowly go to hell in a hand basket once your save file reaches the point it triggers all of the aforementioned issues I listed in the OP.

Oh god...you mentioned the PS3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim *has traumatic flashbacks to 2011* o_O

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At the launch of Skyrim, many technical issues of varying severity were reported. Some examples include a texture down-scaling issue on the Xbox 360 version when the game was run from the hard drive; crashes, slowdown and frame rate issues on the PlayStation 3 version when save files exceeded 6 MB, commonly occurring due to extended gameplay times; and various crashes and slowdowns on the Windows version. According to Skyrim's director Todd Howard, the notion that bugs were caused by "restrictive RAM" is incorrect. Howard said, "It's literally the things you've done in what order and what's running."

Thanks for the reply! Got it so it's a classic Bethesda game 😂. In other news the sky is blue! 

Thanks for the recommendation but tbh I think it might be better for me if I wait a little and hope for some remake or remaster on the current consoles. I mean who knows right? They released Skyrim on so many platforms after all so it wouldn't be too far fetched if fallout also got a similar treatment!

Skyrim has had so many newer versions come out on so many devices, it's just mind-boggling. You would think Bethesda would want to maybe port or remaster some of these Fallout games onto a newer generation, but nope. So far it doesn't look like that's the case. There's been rumor and speculation about a possible Fallout 3 remaster but I don't think I've read anything concrete on that coming from Bethesda themselves.