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Originally Posted by icestar2
It was to bring the cost of manufacturing down. They were already taking a fairly big loss on every console sold. They were still taking a loss even with the emotion chip removed but it was slightly less of a loss if that makes sense.
The fact the PS2 was still doing so well probably helped with the desicion to.
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Oh i know the official reason, what i mean is that because the ps2 was still so popular it would have made sense to keep the compatability to make more people buy the ps3 and therefore bring costs down with volume