Yet, the PS2 initially sold well solely on the basis of the strength of the PlayStation brand and its backwards compatibility, selling over 900,000 units in the first weekend in Japan.
Sony has also made a PVR/DVD burning consumer device that plays PlayStation 2 games called the PSX.
Hardware sales remained strong until 2004 saw the console apparently approaching saturation point.
The PS2 hardware can read both compact discs and DVDs.
PS2's opening day console sales eclipsed the previous record of 225,000 made by the Sega Dreamcast in 1999.
V0 did not have a built-in DVD player and instead relied on an encrypted player that was copied to a memory card from an included CD-ROM (normally, the PS2 will only execute encrypted software from its memory card, but see PS2 Independence Exploit).
V3 has a substantially different internal structure from the subsequent revisions, featuring several interconnected printed circuit boards.
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