V0 was a Japanese model and was never sold in Europe or the US.
V3 has a substantially different internal structure from the subsequent revisions, featuring several interconnected printed circuit boards.
However, the release of several blockbuster games during the 2001 holiday season pushed the PS2 far in front even as the Xbox and GameCube made their impressive debuts.
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.
However the New Slim Silver Models have more issues with playing PlayStation games than the first PS2 revisions.
Only a few million users had obtained consoles by the end of 2000 due to manufacturing delays.
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.
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