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Message: [QUOTE="zavbaz, post: 273985, member: 5733"] PlayStation 2 had an official 40GB hard drive (HDD) as an optional peripheral. It was released alongside the Network Adaptor, and required it for connection and power. The HDD was not standard on all models and needed to be purchased separately. It could be used to speed up game loading times, install downloadable content, and back up save data. I suspect it was possible to implement games save files on it. But most likely, by that time when this games realized, there had already been a PS2 slim without a hard drive for a long time at market. However, it would also be possible to connect an external disk or USB flash drive to it via the available USB ports, Since the modders were able to do this unofficially trough software way, Sony and the game developers themselves could do it. The USB ports on the ps2 were slow speed, but it would have been enough to save files from MANY games. Therefore, it seems to me that the reason is not at all in this, but in something else. As far as I know, the original Xbox is generally considered to have more powerful hardware than the PlayStation 2 (imho, it's too weak for the Morrowind and KOTOR graphics level). The PS2 also had little RAM, half as much as the Xbox. As I read, these games were originally created for PC (or simultaneously develop them as a multiplatform XBOX and PC) and it was much easier to "port" them to XBOX or from XBOX to Windows (Xbox system software Windows NT-based and have DirectX) than to port them to PS2, where there was a very tricky architecture. [/QUOTE]

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