Ps1 classics, yes. Gran Turismo 1+2? God no.

He's right. Very few people would actually bother (re)playing them.

I seen it on gaf and knew it wasn't your fault.  Not sure if it's gaf created or from the article headline but either way it's clickbait. 

You should change your headline to this if you're infact genuine. 

Sony's Jim Ryan on Gran Turismo 1&2: "Why would anybody play this?"

Why would anybody pay for the PSN PS2 games Sony has for sale then? Should they be free or PS Now even.

Yup. That is exactly what is going on here. You should become a writer for clickbait websites/magazines.

Sure, if we were all graphics whores. I mean.. have a pretty okay PC that I still play old games on, and with some tinkering around.. I can get them running on the new system.

Which kinda irks me that Sony hasn't really put any effort in emulation this generation. There's a few games that I would like to play on the PS3 that I can't on the PS4.. And its the old stuff like the PSOne classics that should really be on the PS4. PS2 BC would be a nice as well, but not necessary. But yeah, BC would benefit older games in terms of look/gameplay due to the extra power from the new consoles.

Here's hoping the PS5 will at support BC with the PS3 as well as the PS4.

That's technically accurate, but I'd bet Ryan was using the Gran Turismo event as an example for a belief that 5th and 6th gen games are unplayable due to inferior graphics. It would be strange for him to think such a rule applied only to a single franchise or genre.

Misleading title, reference was to specific games.

He's trying to spin an excuse here, certainly, but he's also probably right in that very few people care about backwards compatibility. Xbox only went with it as an attempt to win gamers back to Xbox by saying, "see, we DO care about you!"

I feel pretty comfortable in saying that the majority of people buying new home consoles see it as a very minor factor.

Personally, I don't care. I still have my PS2 hooked up and I've only gone back to play it a handful of times and each time I gave up on a title after one play-through. Most games don't hold up to the nostalgia I have for them. About the only games I would have an interest in replaying are turn-based, which doesn't age as poorly.

So, yeah, if a new console has a different architecture which would make backwards compatibility difficult or more expensive, then I have no problem with it being left off.

Judging by the quote, is sounds like he was referencing old games in general, not just Gran Turismo games. But I have trouble loading the site with more context, so I can't make proper judgement.

Anyway, there should be little reason for anyone to play old GT games, I imagine. I haven't played them, but I can't imagine them having many advantages over the newer games in the series.

Dude has a point, when u see a sim racer like GT on PS1 and PS2, they're ancient, why would u play this? But many other games with better art styles, like FFIX or XII do still hold up and he would rethink his words if he saw them.

BC is something that was needed going from SD to HD TVs around 2006, but since PS3 is also HD, BC is unneeded with PS4. My PS3 is still hooked up, that console was getting major games until recently.

PS5 will likely have PS4 BC due to the architecture they'll go with from now on, it'll probably have something like a "boost mode" that bruteforces BC, but something that's not guaranteed to work 100%.

For the gameplay.