John Koller, Sony’s Director of Hardware Marketing, has been kind enough to address a number of frequently-asked questions that have passed gamers’ lips of late (concentrating on the approaching PS3 Slim, unsurprisingly) in an interview with Ars Technica. 

We’ll leave you to have a read for yourselves, rather than detail Koller’s words in full here. However, we’re sorry to say that it looks like plans to incorporate backwards compatibility with PS2 titles have been abandoned, for good:

‘It's not coming back, so let me put that on the table [...] It's not as big a purchase intent driver as you may be hearing [...] We've got such a substantial line-up of titles on the PS3; most people are buying the PS3 for PS3 games.’

So there you have it. As Ars writer Ben Kuchera rightly says, there is a certain ‘air of finality’ in that statement. Pass me a tissue, Gamoc...