Looking back at Sony's history they have the tendency of not applying backwards compatibility in a consumer friendly way. They had a great deal of time to make something the player can use efficiently, but instead they've rather figure out how to make you pay for the game you already own. In the PS3, I got it, the disc drives would wear out too fast constantly reading discs so for its longevity they opted to only having them in digital format, same with the PS4, but it's been almost 20 years. Sony could've easily develop an inexpensive PS2 console with an HDMI that's the size of CD walkman, no problem. 1 gig of memory is nothing and with PS2 saved data being in the megabites they could've gotten away with it simply putting an internal memory of 500 megs for hundreds of games. People would've been happy with that, alone. Instead, seeing their history, they're going to try to milk people more. Probably a cloud or streaming based form of backwards compatibility, or only digital PS2 games. That is my current concern, sinee the rumors of no PS3 2 or 1 BC have pretty prominent.