Why Sony will always beat MS at making a console.

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rocketpig said:

 

While that could have been the cause of the PS2's problems, I don't know of a DVD player that can't play CDs. DVD players were widespread by the time of the PS2 launch and DVD-ROM drives were well on their way to mass acceptance.

DVD players could read CD but these players had two separate heads. I remember watching on World News where Sony built a new head for the PS2 which read both formats.