BC and PS3's PS2/PS1 emuation/chips discussion

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<speculation>It seems likely to me that Sony never wanted to put PS2 hardware into the PS3 in the first place and only did so because effective pure software emulation could not be developed fast enough.

Using hardware was always a temporary solution and something they decided to do almost at the last minute. X360 bots panned Sony for it of course. PS1 emulation still works.