As you may recall, Sony got a few people excited last Friday after they announced that European PS3s would no longer be sporting an Emotion engine chip — aka, “the thing that lets you play older games on your PS3″. The community response (predictably) hovered somewhere in-between stunned incredulity and outright fury. You pay $600 for a console, you kind of expect it’s going to handle your back catalogue.

Well, it’s taken a few days for an ‘official’ response to make its way down from Sony on the Mountaintop, but lo, such a thing comes to you today via Sony’s “unofficial” threespeech blog. Since threespeech essentially represents a kind of talking muppet head for Sony’s PR department, don’t expect to see the kind of rage and hurling of blunt objects in the interviewer’s questions to which you might otherwise feel entitled — but hey, at least the article DOES refer to the lobotomized PS3s as ‘degraded models’. That’s gotta count for something.

Source: 1UP.com