When Sony executives were eventually convinced to unhinge a molar and swallow the dissolvable sanity pills that had been dentally inserted into their wisdom teeth for just this sort of thing, they discovered that their wildly ungainly and expensive PlayStation 3 was losing money. Hard. So they quickly sliced off every non-essential extremity in the design and released lesser, cost-saving models without all the frills. You're not going to get your PS2 hardware compatibility back with a peripheral. But if you lament the USB ports and media card reader you lost, Nyko's got you covered with a snazzy $20 media hub. In truth, it's basically just a USB hub, but it's well designed and marginally toothsome. Nyko Media Hub Beefs Up Newer Wimpier PS3s [Gizmodo] ...
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When Sony executives were eventually convinced to unhinge a molar and swallow the dissolvable sanity pills that had been dentally inserted into their wisdom teeth for just this sort of thing, they discovered that their wildly ungainly and expensive PlayStation 3 was losing money. Hard. So they quickly sliced off every non-essential extremity in the design and released lesser, cost-saving models without all the frills. You're not going to get your PS2 hardware compatibility back with a peripheral. But if you lament the USB ports and media card reader you lost, Nyko's got you covered with a snazzy $20 media hub. In truth, it's basically just a USB hub, but it's well designed and marginally toothsome. Nyko Media Hub Beefs Up Newer Wimpier PS3s [Gizmodo] ...