Oh, how times have changed, and quickly, at that. It was a legacy that would persist through all of Sony’s subsequent systems in varying capacities until the PlayStation 4, when Jim Ryan famously quipped to Time “ would anybody play this?” in dismissing consumer demand for such technology. This feature, which had previously been confined in large part to Nintendo’s portables and some of Sega’s earlier systems, helped offer a sense of continuity between hardware generations that was rarely seen in the console space up until that point, giving the PS2’s starting lineup the sort of head start that the competition could only envy. Although much of that attention will likely be focused on the many unique and diverse games that helped make it such an ubiquitous force, it shouldn’t be forgotten that one of the system’s other key pillars that helped fuel its success was its backwards compatibility with the vast majority of the original PlayStation’s library. The Story of the PS2’s Backwards Compatibility From the Engineer Who Built ItĪs the PlayStation 2 turns 20 in Japan on March 4, followed by Europe and North America later in the year, game outlets of all stripes will undoubtedly be trotting out lists and retrospectives commemorating one of the most culturally significant and successful consoles to ever be produced.

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