Last week at Sony’s Ken Kutaragi’s TGS 2006 keynote speech revealed that the PS3 would be backwards compatible with 16-bit games on the MegaDrive/Genesis, much like the Nintendo Wii. Oddly enough SEGA Japan has issued a short statement clarifying that such claims are not correct at this point, that the option is merely being considered, and is currently “under examination.”
Another last minute addition that’s not copied from the competition? Zing! Yeah I went there, but seriously, let’s hope Sega consider it a positive matter classic Sonic and the Genesis archive can appear on the PS3 as well. Via WP