Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, which went on sale in Japan over the weekend to lead off a global launch, can't play some of the older games for the original PlayStation and PlayStation 2, a company official said Tuesday.
Sony Corp. had billed the PS3 as compatible with the earlier PlayStation machines.
But Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Satoshi Fukuoka said some of the 8,000 older games were not working properly on the PS3, creating the wrong sounds or images, and some could not be played at all.