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I still don't understand where this ongoing need of calling people names comes from?So since you are so adament that this is BC you are perfectly ok with Sony raking people over the coals to re pay for games?
Seriously Sony is going to contnue to abuse its user base cause you fools keep making excuses for them.
So its ok to charge for BC now cause "Sony"
The fact that charges have been applied doesn't have any effect at all on the methods used to run the software, which is backwards compatibility.
If you're driving a car it doesn't stop being driving a car and become something else just because you've had to pay for the car. It's the same with reading a book, irrelevant of paying for the book or not.
I get the feeling that you're attempting to make a point but because you don't seem to understand the words that you're using that point is just getting lost somewhere when you post.
But it is the very definition of backwards compatibility in much the same way that it is on the Xbox One. The reason that you can't just play any PlayStation 2 game on the PlayStation 4 is exactly the same reason that you can't play any Xbox or Xbox 360 disc on the Xbox One. It has to be one of the games that Microsoft has chosen to support as backwards compatible and when you place the disc in the machine you will then download a separate version of that game in a recompiled wrapper. The disc that you use is no more than a key for the updated version of the original game.It's technically not BC because they're updated versions that won't play on a PS2, if they were the same images that shipped when the game launched then that would be BC
When you play a PlayStation 2 game on the PlayStation 4 you download a file which includes the emulator needed for that particular game to run on the PlayStation 4 hardware.
The way that the Xbox One deals with these things is a little different as almost everything that console does is running on a separate software layer but both versions are backwards compatibility as they are running legacy code on the current generation of console.
That is what backwards compatibility means in terms of games, running legacy code on a current machine. It doesn't matter how many layers of software they need to use to run that specific code on the current machine.