IrishNinja
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started this over here:
...is this a prevalent mentality here on GAF? i get (but lament) that physical software BC was made to be something of an afterthought by MS & Sony this gen, and further that the current rumors of the PS4 abandoning the cell structure (perfectly logical) imply i shouldn't count on full PS3 BC, at least without a premium system or dongle or something I'm really hoping for.
but are many of you taking that mentality with your console DD purchases? I'm not entirely sure how Nintendo plans to carry over VC/WW purchases (if at at all), but per my post there, i think it'd be somewhat disastrous of either Sony or MS to disregard active libraries they've worked to build, especially given the level of trust required there. Does this strike you as sound, or naive?
Because the PSN purchases are locked to the PS3 and when you no longer have a PS3, you'll no longer have the games. There's no way in hell they'll emulate them all on the PS4.
I'm pretty confident that none of the current DLC and XBLA/PSN games will make the transition to the next set of consoles.
i'm always surprised when i see this - don't most customers buy a PSN/XBLA/etc library under the assumption they can carry their digital goods into the next gen? this seems even more precarious than not bringing physical software BC, because you're asking consumers to have faith & invest in your ecostystem (a tall order for sony after PSN's downtime/compromise last year), but then just drop it all after every gen? this feels like a weird assumption.
When I buy games for a device I expect it to work on that device alone, anything else is just a bonus.
...is this a prevalent mentality here on GAF? i get (but lament) that physical software BC was made to be something of an afterthought by MS & Sony this gen, and further that the current rumors of the PS4 abandoning the cell structure (perfectly logical) imply i shouldn't count on full PS3 BC, at least without a premium system or dongle or something I'm really hoping for.
but are many of you taking that mentality with your console DD purchases? I'm not entirely sure how Nintendo plans to carry over VC/WW purchases (if at at all), but per my post there, i think it'd be somewhat disastrous of either Sony or MS to disregard active libraries they've worked to build, especially given the level of trust required there. Does this strike you as sound, or naive?