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Backwards Compatibility as a Luxury Feature?

Does that seem backwards to anyone else?

There are lots of people like me who like to keep my gaming budget under wraps and right now that means that I can dig through the bargin bins, or buying platnium sellers, which end up being (primarily) Gamecube, Gameboy Advance and other older system's games; garage sales are also good sources of inexpensive games but they are primarily older games.

Now, a person who is going to spend $600 for a game system is probably not going to be the same person who is going to be digging though Wallmart's bargin bins next to some grubby teenager; this means that for the people who are willing to spend the money the feature is worthless, and the people the feature has value are probably not going to pay for the feature.