24th March 2010, 6:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 24th March 2010, 6:17 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
PS1 games on the PS3 were and still are purely emulated. PS2 games used the actual PS2 hardware they put in early versions of the PS3. When they removed those chips as a cost saving measure, there went backwards compatibility. That's all there is to it.
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