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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Former game developer here,

Those games may be ports, not emulations. Emulation isn’t trivial, and there likely isn’t an emulator that shipped with the system. Even if there were, the hardware likely couldn’t emulate the older platforms in a performant manner.

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