• despoticruin@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    They play PS2 games just fine, all PS3 models do. It’s something like 7% of games in the entire library that have issues with the software emulator but the vast majority of games will run and play without any problems.

    The hardware backwards compatibility makes it slightly easier to use physical discs, that’s about it. It also doesn’t play every game perfectly like the original console, but it is slightly better than software.

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      12 hours ago

      They play PS2 games just fine, all PS3 models do.

      Noooo… that’s not right at all. If we are talking unmodified hardware. The original models did have something like 99% compatibility, but as the generation moved on, the fat models removed more components to make it cheaper and made PS2 backward compatibility more software driven… until the slim models removed PS2 disc reading completely.

      We used to look at the hard drive size to gauge. 20GB & 60GB was full hardware, 80GB was partial software, anything above was a slim and had no PS2 abilities.

      PS1 muddies the water because all PS3s can play PS1 game discs.