Why did sony removed BC from the PS3

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Lolcislaw said:
Does getin' rid of BC really saves them that much money in terms of manufacturing? So if Wii got rid of GC compability it would be much cheaper?


I think they've done it for reasons such us boosting PS3 software sales, and keeping PS2 sales up.

The Wii doesn't use Gamecube chips for BC. The Wii's CPU and GPU are backwards compatible, so they can run Wii games as well as GC games.

There's some cost to BC on the Wii but it's probably very small... I can't see any special costs other than the controller ports which are probably very cheap.