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Old 09-20-2018, 10:14 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by underscore View Post
Any PS3 is already backwards compatible with every PSX game, so I guess the only benefit to this is that it's smaller and you don't need the discs? I still have my PSX, games, controllers, hell I even have a multitap for 4 player, but it hasn't been hooked up in forever because I can just toss the games in my PS3 and enjoy a wireless controller. I don't know what the going rate is for the games it comes with but I've been able to find the few titles I've wanted to get on eBay for cheap.

Now I know that doesn't work for everyone, but since this will be the case for some people I don't expect the demand will be as big as it was for the tiny Nintendos.

inb4 they make a PSone classic.
IIRC, it was only the original PS3 that had backwards compatibility with PSX; it was scrapped for later models (i.e. slim version) for cost savings.
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