"Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message 
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> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Xen0s* <Xen0s@ba.it> wrote:
>
>> however if ps3 will use the hardware chipset ot play ps2 games, ps3 will 
>> be
>> definitively unable to play this games in higher resolution and/or with
>> FSAA, additional filtering and so on..
>
> Probably not, but Sony is going for compatibility.  I'd much rather have
> something capable of playing my entire PS2 library, over something that
> only supports a few titles really well, but nothing else.
>
>> x360 wil play xbox games improving the quality in many ways, we don't 
>> care
>> if that will cost effort to ms developer, we care of final results
>
> First off, drop the "we" stuff.  You don't speak for anyone but yourself.
>
> Second, I've not read anything that Xbox360's emulator would be doing
> any sort of imporvements to the Xbox games it supported.  Sure, it's
> possible that the software emulator could somehow improve the graphics of
> an Xbox game, but to be honest, I think it's going to be hard enough to
> get the games to run at Xbox-level resolutions, to say nothing of
> enhancing the graphics and everything.  The other problem with trying to
> do these sorts of enhancements is that they oftentimes only work for a
> small number of games, or worse, need to be tweaked for each game.
>
> Again, nothing that couldn't be accomplished with time and resources.  But
> then the question becomes - is it in Microsoft's best interest to spend
> the time and money to do this?  Think about it - do you really think
> Microsoft wants to encourage people to buy and play that many XBox games
> once Xbox360 hits the shelves?
>
>

yeah there is no indication from either Microsoft or Sony that playing  Xbox 
or PS2 games
on Xbox 360 or PS3 will in anyway improve the game graphics.  There was a 
slight
improvement, as an option, when playing PS1 games on PS2:  "smooth textures" 
which was
bilinear filtering.