Please. Visually better? The BC games on Xbone look like their native state. The framerate improvements are marginal at best. You speak as if the games that run on BC are superior. Theyre the same thing in every sense of the word.
You completely missed the point. Forward compatibility is more than likely going to be the trend. The Xbox Scorpio and PS5 versions of games will more than likely be visually better versions of Xbox One/PS4/PS4 Pro games. If someone bought a game on their older console, then they will have a newer console's version for free if they bought that console's successor.
Example: I bought The Last Of Us, Ratchet and Clank, and Uncharted on my original PS4. I now have visually better versions of all of those games for free because I replaced the PS4 with the PS4 Pro. This is different from typical backwards compatibility.
When did Xbone introduce BC? E3 2015? Between that and now, ps4 went from 20+ million to 50+ million.
Okay? Still doesn't mean that BC hasn't helped Xbox One sales. The logic that something doesn't help a product's sales because that product doesn't instantly jump to a #1 position is pretty flawed and shortsighted.
Using sales, we only need to look at GTAV and how it has performed. GTAV remaster on PS4 and Xbone continues to dominate NPD every single month. Where are all these droves of people who are buying 360 games to play on BC? Sorry, but yout anecdotes about people waiting for BC Xbone before buying are nowhere not even close to a dent to the amount people who bought the system without one.
This is also flawed. I again, never said that BC has been a big game changer this gen and honestly don't know why you are responding to me as if I did say this. On top of this, why would people buy the 360 versions of games if they already own those 360 games? This is also disregarding the fact that there's a digital store with these titles.
You guys keep on using past examples to try and negate my point in that compatibility is going to mean more when the new consoles release. Very flawed considering the changes that are happening this gen; Changes that weren't there back in 2013/2014.
Can't believe this is even an argument valid enough for discussion. And i am pretty sure the pubs would rather put out a remaster and charge 40 bucks for them. BC isn't something that will shift anything. Its just there as an option but it is nowhere near the gamechanger people make it out to be.
I can't believe that you don't see how consoles are changing and how companies are setting themselves up for future compatibility, therefore causing consumers to expect the same as time progresses. You keep on clinging to examples from 2013/2014 as if things haven't changed since then. It's very shortsighted.
People didnt even stick around for Halo 5 or Gears 4, what makes you think people would have stuck with Xbox to play Halo 4 or Gears 3? Yes, you have the odd one out in GTAV and RDR but people will look at the new games they haven't played rather than the ones they already did. New games sell new systems. I'll laugh so hard when a pillar feature for the Nextbox is their BC. It says so much when people come away from an E3 press conference and their main takeway was that they can play Halo 4 on their new 400-dollar system.
No one succeded or beat anyone because their box can play older games.
You are completely missing the point again and constantly showing that you aren't reading what I actually say.
Again, based on the way consoles are heading, the "next gen" versions of games will be nothing more than PS4/Xbox One games with more visual features.
EVERY game should be backwards compatibile -- not like the Xbox One where only some 360 games can be played. ALL Xbox One games on the Scorpio will be backwards compatible.
If someone buys a AAA Xbox One game a few months before the Scorpio releases (whether first party or third party), then chances are that game will be visually better on the Scorpio. Instead of a person needing to buy a separate $60 Scorpio version of that game, the person will have the Scorpio version for
free since that game is saved in their digital library/profile. This is very different from 360 backwards compatibility.
So yes, if one console lets people get "next gen" versions of games for free for simply owning the older console's version and the other console doesn't have that, then many people will definitely feel that's a major difference. Especially the more "mainstream gamers" that don't buy many games per year and mainly play AAA titles.
Again, I'm not saying playing
last gen versions of games on your new gen console. I'm saying being able to play
new gen versions of games because you bought them already on your last gen console. It seems that the industry is heading in this direction. As I said before though, if one box lets people do this, and the other doesn't then yeah -- I definitely think that will be a pretty big deal. I don't see how anyone (including you) could disagree.
"This console lets me play next gen versions of shooters and sports games I own for free due to me buying them on my older console? I don't have to spend $60 for each? No brainer."
I mean, if you think there will be no hub-bub from spending money on two versions of Battlefield, Call of Duty, FIFA, NBA, etc. when another console will transfer that older version over for them and make it "new gen" for free then I don't know what more to say.