This brings back memories of working with PS2 dev boxes and reading Ars Technica. Back then it was a such a good source for this sort of information. The PS2

This brings back memories of working with PS2 dev boxes and reading Ars Technica. Back then it was a such a good source for this sort of information. The PS2 was an incredible pain to develop for. Sony new it would be a hit no matter what they did. They really wanted it to have unique hardware. I also think they wanted it to be a machine that developers couldn't master in a singel development cycle. The way they released information about the VMUs later I think leads credence to the idea that they wanted the second and third life cycle of the device to show successive graphic improvements.