14th April 2005, 4:04 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Yeah, the PS2 uses the same input/output as the PS1, and has enough in common that very little emulating need be done. In fact, from what I read a long time ago just before the PS2 came out, they would not have bothered even adding backwards compatibility except that it was a fairly easy process to do so. Now, even if it's tough, companies don't have much of a choice.
Actually, it's not even that. The PS2 needed an I/O processor. The PSX by this stage was very cheap and easy to manufacture, so why bother making a new one?
Backwards compatability was an after thought.
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