[Dev] PS2 and the new expansion

[Tsuneo]

Their wording doesn't say there will never be PS2 release. I don't know if it was intentional or not. They should have just been blunt about it, so we can get the whining done with now.

[Aldersyde]

Only today's SE could take such a momentous occasion in the history of the game and turn it into such a controversy. They must be looping Benny Hill through their offices 24/7 to produce this level of derp.

[RAIST]

@ Mirage: Clarification noted. Kinda the same thing with FFXI--not really emulation, but run in a wrapper. Kinda the same thing with the XP environment in Win7. The real point though is that the older software doesn't run natively within the scope of Win7--you have to inject that extra layer of code in there to make it run in the newer environment, and for most people that got win7 Home on the more affordable systems, they don't get the virtualization piece (has to be Pro or Ultimate). FFXI has to go through more or less the same thing--without the wrapper, it won't run in Windows.

It all boils down to the PS2 is legacy hardware/software that eventually will no longer be supported by it's designers, and will eventually be dropped, whereas even though Windows/*nix/Apple will continue to provide a means to "upconvert" existing software to the newer OS environments with far less impact than what you deal with when converting a to a newer console (in the case of the PS series, as they are always vastly different components in play). Oftentimes, the only way to justify porting to the newer console is if you plan to do a relaunch of the title---ie: Shadow of the Colossus/IQO HD re-release.