If the PS3 remained hardware backward compatible

through its lifecycle, would we have seen devs using the PS2 chips as coprocessors? Or let me rephrase that: would that have been possible or did Sony discretely make that an impossibility? And if it's possible, would it have been viable or a dead end?



I think of Andy Gavin admitting Naughty Dog used the PS1's CPU as a coprocessor for the Jak and Daxters, against Sony's standards, and wonder about this.