But....but.... not even a common sense biscuit?johnman said:I guess, but no cookieIronic said: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?johnman said:If you can find an emulator that runs a wide variety of X-box and ps2 games well you get a cookieIronic 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.
They're emulators....sort of.
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.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.
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.Raikazu said: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.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.
Ok ok you can have a cookieIronic said:But....but.... not even a common sense biscuit?johnman said:I guess, but no cookieIronic said: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?johnman said:If you can find an emulator that runs a wide variety of X-box and ps2 games well you get a cookieIronic 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.
They're emulators....sort of.
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.
Oh yes...ALL the way back. IF you can that's awesome, if not at least one console back is always nice.aimhellfire said: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 consolesabotstarr said:YES...if you can't play a game that you love on a new console, then you should boycott the console.