{"id":10678,"date":"2009-08-24T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Sonys-New-Slimline-PS3-Wont-Be-Backwards-Compatible-Wont-Support-Linux"},"modified":"2009-08-24T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:30:00","slug":"sonys-new-slimline-ps3-wont-be-backwards-compatible-wont-support-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10678","title":{"rendered":"Sony’s New Slimline PS3 Won’t Be Backwards Compatible, Won’t Support Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony hasn’t sold a PS3 that offered a hardware-level backwards compatibility mode in several years, but with the announcement of the PS3 Slim, fans of the feature were hopeful it might reappear in the new, slimmed-down version. Ars Technica recently had the chance to sit down and talk with Sony’s director of hardware marketing John Koller, and the company executive was quick to dismiss any notion that backwards compatibility would reappear. “It’s not coming back, so let me put that on the table,” Koller told<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony hasn’t sold a PS3 that offered a hardware-level backwards compatibility mode in several years, but with the announcement of the PS3 Slim, fans of the feature were hopeful it might reappear in the new, slimmed-down version. Ars Technica recently had the chance to sit down and talk with Sony’s director of hardware marketing John Koller, and the company executive was quick to dismiss any notion that backwards compatibility would reappear. “It’s not coming back, so let me put that on the table,” Koller told Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}