The device was poorly received, with some major features absent from the first revisions of the hardware, and has thus far experienced very weak sales in Japan, in spite of major price drops [5].
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V3 has a substantially different internal structure from the subsequent revisions, featuring several interconnected printed circuit boards.
It is backwards compatible with older PlayStation (PS1) games, allows for DVD Video playback, and will play PS2 games off of cheap CD-ROMs or higher-capacity DVD-ROMs.
Developers also complained that it was difficult to develop for the system, with little in the way of reference material from Sony for its exotic architecture.
V5 introduces minor internal changes and the only difference between V6 (sometimes called V5.1) and V5 is the orientation of the Power/Reset switch board connector, which was reversed to prevent the use of no-solder modchips.
V0 was a Japanese model and was never sold in Europe or the US.
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