Poll: Should Backwards Compatibility Be A Standard On All Consoles

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PureChaos

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it's nice to have but not compulsory. i play a lot of gamecube games on my wii but if the wii didn't have backwards compatibility i'd just use my GC instead.
 

Ironic

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johnman said:
Ironic said:
johnman said:
Ironic said:
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
But....but.... not even a common sense biscuit?
It can be gingerbread, or even just a stale cake!

Fine, screw you guys, I'm gonna go get my own cookie, and it'll be way better than yours.
 

child of lileth

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I think it should be standard, but at the same time, you could just as easily just play the old games on the old system. It's like when I was a kid, if I wanted to play an NES game, I had to unhook the SNES and hook up the NES. I think people just got spoiled with the PS2 and think it's a mandatory thing now.
 

Thunderhorse31

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Calobi said:
Yes, because it would help encourage people to buy the newer consoles. If they've wanted one or two games from an older one, and could play them on the newer ones with games being developed for it then I would imagine there would be more sales.
I would think so too, but I'm pretty sure Sony dropped BC in the first place so they could force people to buy $60 games instead of $20 ones. This mostly applies to licensed games that have multiplatform releases - working in retail some time ago, I saw plenty of parents who would go the cheap route and buy a PS2 version of Transformers or Spiderman just to save some coin.

Plus you gotta figure no BC would slow/stop people from selling their PS2s to the second-hand market. So if you want to play PS2 games, you better own a system already, or pay the $100 to get one. Needing two systems instead of one = more $$$ for Sony.

Or you can get around the whole thing by buying an old 60 gig...
 

HotShooter

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Absolutely. It's hard for me to go back and use my old consoles for old games. I just don't like having to use a PS2 when I PS3 because the latter makes me feel fancy.
 

xHipaboo420x

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It should absolutely come as standard. This generation of consoles has the worst backwards compatability yet. Hardly any of my Xbox games work on the 360. It's a shambles, and should be redressed.
 

skcseth

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Raikazu said:
skcseth said:
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.
True. But games like the original MGS would be nice. Maybe if future consoles released some of their greatest hit games through an online store (like MS is doing), they could add more games.
 

johnman

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Ironic said:
johnman said:
Ironic said:
johnman said:
Ironic said:
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
But....but.... not even a common sense biscuit?
It can be gingerbread, or even just a stale cake!

Fine, screw you guys, I'm gonna go get my own cookie, and it'll be way better than yours.
Ok ok you can have a cookie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Choco_chip_cookie.png
 

Sebenko

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When I got a PS2 I never looked at my PSone games, except for a few minutes of nostalgia. not really worth it.
 

Xanthious

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Honestly the lack of (Hardware based) backwards compatibility on the current PS3s is the reason I own a PS2 and an Xbox360 and not a PS3 and an Xbox360. Backwards compatibility should be included on all models from the get go and stay during the entire run (ie the PS2, DS, and Wii).
 

MasterMuffinMan

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Backwards compatibility is one of those things that you consider very important when buying a console, and lose all interest for as soon as you get it out the box. However, it was crucial in my acquisition of a PS2, all those years ago: "But look, I'll still be able to play all those old PlayStation games on it, so they won't go to waste!" Fools parents every time.

Sure, there's the odd old game that you'll want to play, either out of a sense of nostalgia or wanting to play through a storyline (in my case, Knights of the Old Republic II for Xbox), but really they're in the minority. And all this assumes that you don't have the original console still. I still have my PS2, so if I want to play Spider-Man or San Andreas, all I have to do is dust off the controller.

So in conclusion, it's a resounding "meh" from me.
 

velcthulhu

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Back in the 90's, when a new generation meant a completely new kind of hardware for storing games, it was ok to not have backwards compatibility because they were still experimenting with the technology. But now that everything's been on disks for two generations, there is absolutely no excuse for lacking backwards compatibility. That goes double for computers (Yes, I'm looking at YOU, vista and OS X).
 

sabotstarr

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aimhellfire said:
sabotstarr said:
YES...if you can't play a game that you love on a new console, then you should boycott the console.
though i think that it's very important, i think thats a little bit of an exxageration, but how far should it go back should you be able to play the NES on the wii, not including the virtual console
Oh yes...ALL the way back. IF you can that's awesome, if not at least one console back is always nice.
 

Rouzeki

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I say backwards compatibility should be on each console. Real backwards compatibility *Glares at Xbox360*.

not to long ago, both my ps2, and xbox broke down(I got the systems around the initial releases, and didn't show interest in the current gen until recently). So I figured now would be a good time to update, seeing as how all I have left is a gamecube and an advance SP in good working order.

that was until I found out that the PS3 won't play anything previous as far as I know, and the 360 can't play most of my favorite games without some major glitch, if at all.

Backwards compatibility lets the new systems play back up for the old in case something happens. that works great in case you personally don't pick up many games per system, or you just want some insurance with a kick. the fact that Sony had good BC last gen to just toss it off the PS3 for any length of time was sand in the eye. I didn't expect much from the 360.

That's why I'm getting a Wii or a Ds-lite soon. The Wii plays not only backup to the Gamecube, but the idea alone of the virtual console was a sick move by Nintendo. a gem of a game is still a gem, no matter how old, right? It's almost payback for the previous Nintendo Gens. Either way I go, one of my old sturdies not only has backup, but the potential for more with a newer library. hard way to lose either way- that's the problem. can't decide!

that's also why i'm loaning/turning in most of my PS1/PS2/Xbox archives. I'm just in no mood to replace anything anymore. when it comes to this, I figure upgrading should also at least do a decent job of covering what was behind it.
 

Chiddy

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YES, one fo the big reasons i didnt get a ps3 and got my awesome xbox, mainly because ps3 doesnty have not that xbox does