Recent content by crc32

Computing technology is not something that is at all predictable and a manufacturer cannot predict trends 10 years from now, much less from here to eternity. And DirectX isn't the best case study for backwards compatibility considering how many things break from iteration to iteration. How...

Yeah #3 isn't happening. You may get Wii/WiiU or PSX/PS2, but sustained BC isn't possible. As far as I see, as a game developer you have 4 options: 1) Emulation, which you already know is limited. 2) Keep existing hardware appended to your hardware, which'll drive up costs. 3) Keep a...