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by monocasa 700 days ago
> If you wanted cheap above all, you could have gone for a plain 6502 or a cut-down variant (like the 6507 in the Atari VCS), but they also didn't do that -- the Ricoh 2A03 is a custom part that includes custom sound hardware.

The higher integration on a single chip for the 2A03 was absolutely a cost saving move.