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.

Edit: Thank you all for the informative replies.

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Several reasons. But the main ones are quite simple.

Fully emulating a console so it works with all discs would be difficult. Games they control can be modified to work (assuming they use emulation in the first place – they might be ports)

They don’t make any money from you if you use existing games.

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