If you were one of the lucky (patient, rich, faithful) who bought a first generation PS3 when it was released, you could and still can play PS2 games. Lucky bastards. The 20 GB and 60 GB models ran software emulation (a la 360) from an actual PS2 chip within the PS3. This eventually caused a few issues with some select games so Sony decided to scrap emulation for their next generation of PS3s (80 GB 120GB). Something that truly and utterly sucked.
However; there is some good news as of late for the suckers with more hard drive space. It turns out that a patent has recently been discovered by Siliconera involving the use of the PS2s emotion engine. The PS3s Cell chip would directly translate code from the PS2 Emotion Engine making it much more stable and reliable than emulation performed on the software level.
This basically means that it will be etirely possible to play any PS2 game on any PS3 model. I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this one as it's a feature I missed out on by picking up my PS3 late in the game.
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