Holy crap who cares why they are doing it, these type of arguments are ridiculous. Sony fans literally putting up with less services and sony being a jackass about any type of BC so they can parade around forums waving the #1 flag.
Sony this gen are fucking lazy dont give a shit about its customers and arent lifting a finger to provide additional value and dumbass sony fans are like "well MS wouldn't be doing this if they were #1" Sony fans have such an obsession with sales numbers and being #1 they dont even care how Sony treats them. They are are more stock holders than gamers
I certainly don't, because I can hardly keep up with my backlog regarding new games, let alone play games I already finished. I already said it's a great gesture from MS, but some people are again hyperboling this as if it is an actual meant feature for the X. It's there for a reason and not just to please the players, is all I mean (just like the UHD player). Just be happy it's there and you are able to play more games and stop defending it for no reason (like the dude on top of the first page). No one said anything about BC being bad. Why so defensive?
To bad you are making it a VS. discussion (I was just pointing out why MS is doing this, nothing more, they're not a charity organisation or something), but Sony is lazy? They are actually creating new IP's and putting out new exclusive content. And in their remasters there has been put a lot more work than what MS does with enhancing 360 games. Yes it comes with a price, but that doesn't make it lazy. They are actually investing in studio's instead of focusing on multiplatform and games everybody already played. You call that lazy and supporting BC as much as MS is (because that's the only thing you can do to stand out a bit more) not? That said: I'd personally rather pay for a good remaster with actual improvements, than play, let's say, the PS3 version of the Last of Us with just a resolution bump.
Funny you call Sony fans that. MS fans (like yourself I guess) didn't care for the graphical superior multiplatform console experience for 4 years and now all of a sudden it's the wholy grail. And you know BC for PS3 is almost impossible because of the cell CPU, right?
Sony fans that bitched over the slightly better graphics the last 4 years are just as worse as MS fans bitching about it know.