What dose the emotion engine do? that the cell broadband engine cant?

Question

i know that the EE is the cpu of the ps2 but what makes it so necessary to when you play a ps2 game?

and if the cell broadband engine is so powerful why cant it proses like the EE?

and what about the graphic synthesizer how dose that make the ps3 not be able to play ps2 games

Answer 1

ps3 does have backwards compatibility you just have to have one of the old 60g which has ee and cell broadband

Answer 2

EE is hardware that plays PS2 games. Cell is the CPU of the PS3.

RSX is the GPU of the PS3.

(What I just said is as confusing as the Metal Gear Solid storyline.)

Answer 3

Where's the EE chip in PCs?

PCs can emulate the PS2 to play PS2 games so there's no way that any PS3 system couldn't play PS2 games.  It's just a matter of whether Sony wants people to buy the new PS3 games or to continue buying PS2 games.

Granted the PS2 emulators for the PC aren't perfect but then again Sony know the system better than the developers of these emulators.

Those that are giving me thumbs down do your d**n research! Amiga is different architecture to PC but is successfully emulated. PS2 is different architecture to PC but is for the most part successfully emulated. PS1 is different architecture to PC but is successfully emulated. There's no reason that PS3 could not emulate PS2 through software.

Answer 4

It's not about the spped of CPU. Cell and EE have a way too different archtecture from one anoother. That's why PS2 is needed to play PS2 games on PS3. In fact, EE is software emulated on PAL 60GB and old 80GB consoles. Graphics chip of PS2 - that's the main necessity for PS2 games. GPUs of both consoles are very different too.