I agree with you that PS3 should remain backwards compatible. It’s expensive and annoying to have to replace all of your old games if you want to get rid of your PS2, it breaks, your roommate accidentally mistakes it for a waffle maker, or your ex runs off with it in some immature way to get back at you for a bad relationship. I’m unfamiliar with downloading games from the servers, because I haven’t had a desire to do so yet. Are you able to play games you downloaded on someone else’s system? (by logging in to your profile?) If not, this blows, because some of the fun is getting together with people and playing a multi-player game while eating wings and drinking more beer than you originally intended. I just always forget this requires having friends first.

PS3 now officially makes me angry, and I guess I’m going to continue to suffer without Ratchet and Clank until they make a system worth having once again.

The 60GB model used hardware extras to enable the PS3 to play old games, which means the software footprint, if any, was tiny. As for the models using software emulation, we can’t be talking a footprint over 10MB, considering that PS2 emulators on the PC are around that size.