A new day is dawning in Japan. The day of the newest PS2, the Satin Silver Edition, which is a model that lacks full backwards compatibility with seven PS2 games and almost 40 PS1 games. Talk about anticlimatic. The Silver model is expected to go on sale in Japan on 11/23, which is approximately two-weeks before the Xbox 360 debuts there. With such compatibility issues, what can be expected of the PS3?

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