The PS2's brand strength has led to strong third-party support for the system. Although th

Support for PlayStation games was also an important selling point for the PS2, letting owners of an older system upgrade to the PS2 and keep their old software, and giving new users access to older games until a larger library was developed for the new system. As an added bonus, the PS2 had the abil

While the texture smoothing was universally effective (albeit with odd effects where transparent textures are used - white borders would be seen around sprites), faster disk reading could cause some games to fail to load or play incorrectly. Additionally some titles have unique bugs even when the enhancements are not used - for instance, the famous RPG Tactics Ogre cannot be used with the component video outputs. PlayStation 1 games do not support component video output. However, they do work with the digital optical sound port.