Why are PS4 and PS5 unable to read PS1 or PS2 discs?

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They are clearly able to emulate the games based on the PS1 and PS2 games being available on the digital storefront.

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The discs on all PS systems are different and sometimes even for the same system, people should remember certain PS1 discs not working on their compatible PS2. After PS3 the standard was the use of Blueray discs that allowed for much more actual data to be stored at a higher fidelity. But also allowed for complete backwards compatibility, I think there were multiple disk readers in use at that point.

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