I've got 4 consoles hooked up to my TV and it could really be 1 PS4 or just PS4 and PS3.
BC should be Sony's highest priority just for legacy reasons, but they aren't gonna do it when most people discard and don't care for games 3 weeks old let alone 10/20 years old.
It's a sad state and people only care when those games get Remastered even though the PS4 does how the power to atleast output the game's they already own from the PS2 and PSX era in 720p minimum.
I don't know if I really liked PS3 and XB360 that much, or what. However if I could play those games, especially from digital library, on the new consoles I would really enjoy that. I know with different chip sets, processors, etc that prevented this from being practical.
Playing games from last 10 years on new system would have been stellar.
To be fair, this is also one of the first times people have a vast digital library that then gets locked to "older" systems, so it's been interesting to see people's reactions to this. You'd hope the older systems would have at least dropped in price by now to take some of the sting out of no BC, but no. Talk about having your cake and eating it too... >>
in the infamous words of Don Mattrick
"If You’re Backwards Compatible, You’re Really Backwards"
It really is amazing how you can play any game of any generation if you have a PC. You have DOSBOX for any game from 1982 to 96-97 (whenever the last DOS game was released) and if there's any Windows game that doesn't work with your main OS, there are always solutions you can try, from unofficial patches to playing the game inside a virtual machine with an older OS.
And then you have emulators of almost any system in existence from previous generations. From Channel-F to Nintendo Wii with only a few exceptions (like the OG XBOX).
Additionally, you get other goodies that other services (like VC or PSstore) simply lack. You get nice frontends with lots of features like boxart, cart/cd art, info, snapshots, video previews, etc, everything with a superb presentation (like hyperspin for instance). Also, you get things like CRT shaders and even portable LCD screen shaders like the gameboy screen in RetroArch.
But the best thing is that almost everything is "portable" and easily backed up. After you get a new PC, all you have to do is copy/paste your stuff to the right directory and you are good to go.
Why would you place the ps4 on top of the only fan on the Xbox?My main TV is swamped with electronics and pulling enough power as it is. I even tried to stack my PS4 on top XB1 and the XB1 fans started whining at game startup, due to too much heat. (Or maybe it knew it had PS4 riding it's back and was rejecting it). Would love to have PS3 and XB360 there too but just not practical. I guess I will just need to have 2 entertainment units setup with 2 TVs in the future then. But then I think wait, wouldn't have been just awesome if these new systems were backwards compatible? Thus I wrote this thread.
Disappointingly, Backwards Compatibility was a 'thing' for like one generation in videogame history. Just the PS2 and Wii U, right? Did Wii play Gamecube games?
It really is amazing how you can play any game of any generation if you have a PC.
Disappointingly, Backwards Compatibility was a 'thing' for like one generation in videogame history. Just the PS2 and Wii U, right? Did Wii play Gamecube games?
Yeah, Wii U has "bc", but its not as convenient as bc in past systems. I don't even bother using it.
"hugs Wii U"
It could have been handled better but you're literally getting a Wii console inside your Wii U. It's actually pretty great, all things considered.
It could have been handled better but you're literally getting a Wii console inside your Wii U. It's actually pretty great, all things considered.
It expands the library of the console significantly. Would've not bought it if it didn't have a decent VC and BC library.
It was a big mistake not having it on the Bone and PS4. There's been so many great sales on last gen, who wouldn't want to grab Dragons Dogma, or a cheap Kingdoms of Amalur during a light release period?
Disappointingly, Backwards Compatibility was a 'thing' for like one generation in videogame history. Just the PS2 and Wii U, right? Did Wii play Gamecube games?
It really is a sad state of affairs.
PS3 had no excuse for it not to be full BC except to promote rebuying games on PSN. The excuse of the chip set being different I felt was lazy.
You'd think Microsoft would get ahead on Sony and Ninty here and have the XB1 full BC as far back as Xbox days.
What do you mean?Didn't Nintendo crack down on this?
What do you mean?
Not allowing their games to be downloaded for free off the net. I thought Nintendo was fighting it?
I miss BC, but I also understand that to either emulate or add separate hardware specifically for PS3/360 just doesn't make financial sense for the PS4 or Xbox One. The jump from Gamecube to Wii was so miniscule when compared to other generation gaps at the time that it was a lot easier for the Wii U to emulate its last-gen.
Seriously, the Wii had a 729 MHz PowerPC CPU, 3.9 GBps video memory bandwidth over 24 + 3 MB of VRAM and 64 MB GDDR3 system RAM to emulate.
If I remember right the Wii U has Wii internals in it, not emulated.
It was a big mistake not having it on the Bone and PS4. There's been so many great sales on last gen, who wouldn't want to grab Dragons Dogma, or a cheap Kingdoms of Amalur during a light release period?
PS3 was fully backwards compatible but nobody wanted to pay the premium for that system so that it got stripped out.
I barely used it when I had it so the loss of it doesn't bother me.
I don't know why anyone would think that. MS has never really given a shit about BC. The 360's BC was pretty half-assed, and then they just sort of gave up on it all together once the 360 took off. Even before we knew for sure that the One and the PS4 weren't going to have BC I kind of figured that MS would just drop the concept.
You & me both. The only reason I managed to play Knights of the Old Republic was because it was compatible with the Xbox 360, I wasn't going to buy an original Xbox years later just for one game.
I liked the fact PS1 games could be played on the PS2 as well, likewise PS1 games can be played on the PS3, which is always handy.
I would never understand how someone could argue against backwards compatibility when it's literally a feature which benefits the player.
Did Wii play Gamecube games?