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Quote: Originally Posted by Woodweaver

This decision was made to reduce the cost of the PS3. The system architecture between the two generations was different enough that it required additional chips which necessarily required additional cost. The thinking was that between the installed PS2s out there and the savings that the consumer would have without the backwards compatibility that most people would just rather keep their old PS2. And if you're thinking, why don't they just make one that is still backward compatible and give the consumer the choice?...I'd spend the extra money on it. Well...it costs a lot of money to gear up manufacturing to build out two separate consoles in that manner, and based on the cost and market feed back, it just didn't make business sense.

Didn't make business sense? While it would have cost them millions to subsidize the cost, the lack of PS2 backward compatibility with upscale conversion only cost Sony their massive lion's share of the video game market and dropped their brand loyalty from all time highs to all time lows, not something that can be regained. Today, Sony is a mere shadow of what they were in the PS1/PS2 era.