Dear Future Gamer,

I thought I'd write because I've just finished the latest issue of FG and I have a couple of issues I want to raise.

There is a lot of talk about PlayStation 2 being backwardly compatible with the existing catalogue of PlayStation titles. If this is true, could they be played with better quality graphics - as with the emulators for the PC which enable PS games to be run with improved graphics? (Higher resolutions, texture filtering etc?).

Secondly, if the PS2 does have all this excellent kit inside (DVD-ROM, Emotion Engine, AC3 audio etc) I can't see it being sold at £250. DVD ROM drives, being newish, are expensive, AC3 audio decoders are expensive (don't Dolby charge for their audio systems being used by other people?) and as for the Emotion Engine, if it can outperform a Pentium II processor then wouldn't it be at least as expensive if not more so, than a PII?

RiK

FG: Playing old PlayStation games on the Next Generation PlayStation will not improve them. They will look and sound just as they do on the old PlayStation. As for the price of the thing, we’re all just going to have to wait and see. Sure, the technology costs, but Sony will be very careful not to price it out of the reach of the majority of gamers.