Poll: Should Backwards Compatibility Be A Standard On All Consoles

[Gyrefalcon]

I think you can class Backward Compatability on the 360 as standard.[/quote]

The 360 claims to be backwards compatible but having it load the opening screen and then not allow me to actually play the game DOES NOT COUNT!

 

[vejtornado]

it sbhould as it would increase sales of consoles. It means that you would not have to keep an old console around, except for nostalgia.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Personally, I could care less. I own a PS2, but I don't play any games on it, but if new people to gaming own one of the next-gen consoles, they should be able to play old classics.

 

[Raikazu]

It should, but as the technology advances, I don't see how console makers can make every game, for every system they've made work on a next-gen platform.

I think this is an issue, but being realistic, you'd only need the previous console. Take Sony for example. When the PS2 came out, many people (including me) still played PS1 games on it. With a PS3, if I were to buy it I'd still want to be able to play PS2 games, but I'm over the PS1 games now.

 

[IntoxicatedKnight]

It's a great console selling point, "Play your old games! Look no patch!"

 

[Antiparticle]

Of course. It's ridiculous that I can't play many of my favorite Xbox games on my Xbox 360, including Painkiller, just to name one. Microsoft isn't even adding new games to the backwards compatibility list anymore. At least the Wii did that right, I can play all my Gamecube games on it, as it should be. (Well, almost all. Not the import games. That was too much to ask, of course.)

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Yep, definitely.

Mind you my last console was a ps2 and I don't have any plans to get a ps3...

 

[The Youth Counselor]

YES! I am sick and tired of having to stick my head in the web of wires behind my home entertainment system to plug in old consoles just for one game!

 

[RollForInitiative]

It's a nice idea, but it's pretty obvious that most people don't know what actually goes into making backwards compatibility a reality. It gets the "I'll take it if they offer it" response from me, but it's not a requirement on technical grounds alone.

 

[Ironic]

I remember the early days in the console wars when people were convinced that the PS3 had complete backwards compatibility and will always have it, and this was one of the main flame-weapons against the X360 fan boys.

How I lol.

But, getting to the point, I don't seem to see why backwards compatibility is THAT important to most, if you own the game, download an emulator and play it on PC if you really feel the urge to play it, but for most of my older generation games, I get really into that game, before slowly growing tired of the game i completed so many times before / graphical shortcomings, and go back to a current, modern games for the pretty 'splosions and higher polygon count...

 

[johnman]

Ah, another reason why PC gaming rocks. Full backwards compatability, in many cases for free, as well as emulators so you can play games from any pre-playstation console.
For consoles I dont think its vital, but this a good idea. It wont always work, take the Wii for example, nintendoes back catalogue wont support motion control.

 

[j1-2themax]

BC might be a good thing at the start of a console's lifespan, when the quality of the games released can be passed off as shiny versions of the last generation's games. But at this late stage in the generation, BC is almost unnecessary. You may use it once in a while when you REALLY have the hankering for (ex.) the original Mercenaries, but odds are you're not going to go out looking for PS2 games when you could just as easily pick up a PS3 game (unless you're really cheap, in which case you're in the wrong hobby, or you finally get your hands on that game you've been looking for for SO LONG!)

 

[johnman]

But, getting to the point, I don't seem to see why backwards compatibility is THAT important to most, if you own the game, download an emulator and play it on PC if you really feel the urge to play it.

If you can find an emulator that runs a wide variety of X-box and ps2 games well you get a cookie

 

[Kiereek]

I wouldn't expect the next Nintendo console to have a slot for me to plug in NES games clearly, but if you're going to produce a console that uses a disk type format, or even a format similar to the previous one, I think that little bit of extra effort to include backwards compatibility for ALL of the last console's games would be benefitial to both gamer and company. For example....I bought Enter the Matrix for the original XBOX (for $10 mind you), with the intent of playing it on my 360, because I remember it being a wicked, although maybe poorly done, game. Sure enough, although some XBOX games were BC, this happened to be one of the ones that wasn't. I just don't understand what the difference between it and other games is. Is there some complicated reason they neglected to include it?

 

[Ironic]

But, getting to the point, I don't seem to see why backwards compatibility is THAT important to most, if you own the game, download an emulator and play it on PC if you really feel the urge to play it.

If you can find an emulator that runs a wide variety of X-box and ps2 games well you get a cookie

The Xbox or PS2 that you didn't throw out just in-case that game you love playing didn't work on your new console, because all new technology HATES YOU and doesn't work the way it says it will?

They're emulators....sort of.

 

[konkwastaken]

ofcourse, and maybe one day they can work like the awesome bluray players that upscale DVDs, if you could upscale graphics from backwards games i would be all over that.

 

[Svizzara]

Definitely. I have a pile of PS2 games that I'd love to start playing again, but my PS3 can't play them.

 

[midpipps]

Yes I would love to see it standard on all systems at least to the previous generation of games.

The reason the ps3 dropped the backwards compatibility was they dropped the emotion chip from the ps3 to help drop the price. If you want to blame someone for ps3 not having backwards compatibility blame all the people who whined about it being to expensive.

Then again now you can buy the largest ps3 and a ps2 for what I payed for my ps3.

 

[johnman]

But, getting to the point, I don't seem to see why backwards compatibility is THAT important to most, if you own the game, download an emulator and play it on PC if you really feel the urge to play it.

If you can find an emulator that runs a wide variety of X-box and ps2 games well you get a cookie

The Xbox or PS2 that you didn't throw out just in-case that game you love playing didn't work on your new console, because all new technology HATES YOU and doesn't work the way it says it will?

They're emulators....sort of.

I guess, but no cookie

 

[Rimefrost]

Yes it absolutely should. I love playing PS1 and PS2 games on my PS3, and playing gamecube games on the Wii. This way I can sell my old consols and have more money/less clutter.