I wonder why chinese knock-off PS1 aren't a thing, like chinese NES knock-offs were once. After all it seems like a pretty popular console on the same level.
@hideki NES was based on a 6502 CPU, which is readily available and costs like $2. PS1 has a lot of custom hardware. Of course, reverse engineering all that shit and making copies was an option, but nobody wanted to make a huge investment, or didn’t succeed if they did. There were plug-and-play “consoles” that looked like PS1 though.
