Your concern is really not that reasonable. Backwards compatibility simply isn't a necessary feature for most consumers, as is evident by the fact that Sony, and Nintendo removed it from their consoles, and MS only made a fraction of games compatible by software updates before stopping. Most people simply don't care. Your one man crusade about the matter only serves to make you look like a crazy person.
Maybe. Vita brought it out in me because they offered the BC to the digital platform only. But the digital platform bugs me. I have games from decades ago, that I still hook up and play.
Sure I can do the same with the platforms I have so far. Including PSP. But the more pressures that push things digital-only, the less and less physical media will actually be released and exist. The less and less people will be able to retain and have access to game collections years from now, regardless of platform, because, like DLC for XBox 1 games, the only outlet available will just be gone. And the more and more we'll be re-paying to re-buy something we have bought already. Is my incessant ire that you've noticed because of the backwards compatibility or about the digital distrust? Vita made it about both.
So okay. No compatriots, fellow sympathizers, or understanding on NeoGAF, in the Vita launch thread. Twitter got me some understanding responses, as did some other forums. I'm trying to respond reasonably to the potshots you want to take at me. I don't write about games for a living. Good for you for doing so. Me, I go on about something when a passionate viewpoint grips me.
And if I'm alone here, and you want to construe that to mean I'm alone in the world on this, I have no need to disavow you of the notion. But I honestly don't think it's true.