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When PS3 first came out, it was understood that, unlike PS2, it would NOT play PS1 or PS2 games--and it never has (since an otherwise-necessary update the first time you go online). According to Sony, if you want to keep playing your PS2 games, then keep your PS2 console, too. It's equally 'unlikely' that PS4 will have any 'backwards compatibility', either; it's expected to only play DLC---no disk drive. What you called 'the games lineup' already *has* been 'split' between Sony consoles, and the 'minimum spec' for PS3 is that a game's box and disk read "PS3", and not 'PS2' or 'Playstation'.
Sony gaming-console customers (and I am one) know that compatipility(sic) is *nonexistent*--not, as you claim, "a massive driver in the choice for console gaming, after all."