NJ5 on 13 December 2008
| RSEagle said: I don't see why the PS3's aren't backwards compatible. Does it save money? Or does Sony just want to force people to buy PS3 games? |
It saves money to not support PS2 games. The PS2 graphical chip is present in all the PS3s which run PS2 games. By eliminating it in later models that chip isn't required anymore, and maybe it allowed them to reduce the size of the motherboard too.
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