I had long talks at cons and over nets and in person
many would have opted to just use their blue ray player or WAIT to get the ps blue ray
in order to have the ability to play the ps2 games instead
thats all I gots to say
yes it was due to games getting to big, so it would have been a really really cheap ps that was aimed at ole backwards games only no blue ray ones
odd but this came up sooo many times people upset at the no backwards stuffs
many many many of them said i could live without blueray games id rather play the old stuff and my old console is broke and said stores or ebay want to much for consoles that are the originals and might go out at any moment, hell nintendo will fix a wii or GC still, its 150$ usd to FIX a gc and all you need is a bic pen and some know how
anyway
just know it was a talk about how we .. the old school gamers would have liked the option to have both blue ray and backwards compat, but only 3 models exist, sooo we would have opted for a model called like ye old school with preloaded stuffs and older hardware aka a new ps2 just as ps3.. basically..
hard to explain .. just get a ps2 toss in shadows of the collssuusss and watch how chug chug it goes, some games just never ran well on ps2 and we were all going oooo cant wait for ps3 so this game will finally run in more than 3 fps!
and it did for a few models, again as you said, the chips were made, the emu done the money was spent already,
taking it out did almost nothing for the cost total, the only thing vampin it up, was the blue ray which no other systems offered.. not even xbox, sooo why did ps need it shrug
movies.. was sony's main reason, not games, and most had a blue ray player already in the home, some didnt i dont, I dont even have an hd tv so what good would a blue ray hd dvd do for me? lol
though I do collect blue ray dvds like the doctor who box with the 3d anni special which one day ill be able to watch i hope, .. in 3d hd at home shrug
or my blade runner case signed by like almost the whole damned crew .. mc awesome got one dvd ver and one blue ray etc
annyway
still think since the tech is there, they should throw it back in,
same with microsoft and windows products
i mean we as old techs or gamers can use VM's and run games, why not just include this in windows with no real cost at all, hell partner up with some people or buy em out, they would make LOADS of cash on it, not a choice id have said no to if i was head of any of these companies esp in this awesome era of the comebacks.. aka games and movies revamped or the nostalgia of old games coming back full force.. = money and demand.. is high
shrug