| libellule said: VGChartz is full of hardcore gamers (including me !) for which BC is important (being able to play some oldies is great) but for the average customers, what is the interest to play Madden/PES2006 when the 2008 edition is here. Same for GTA or Virtua Fighter or GT. Even if hardcore player would like to be able to play MGS1/2/3/4 in the same console, the casual gamers, IF he is interested in MGS4, will just buy MGS4 ! Same for Halo3 for example. For us, BC is important. But for the sales, BC is not important and absolutely not critical. This is why Sony dropped it. |
to a point i agree, but "hardcore gamers" at least the most hardcore of them, would not mind having a number of consoles ranged around a tv screen, and some probably have large TV stands with lots of storage specifically for extra consoles and other TV tech.
Wheras the PS2 generation is mostly casual, and wouldn't want more than one console to play their games with, so until there are a number of singstar/DDR games (say at least 3 of each) on the PS3 they will still want to play their old games.
I will agree though that for the most part the casuals will not be that bothered about BC overall, but how many casuals can the PS3 pull in at the moment?
edit; you also might have people like me, who are some way inbetween. If the Wii had not been BC i would not have wanted to sell my GameCube (with the three games i played the least) and got a nice £36 off the price of the Wii.....and in fact some PS2 owners may have sold their PS2 recently, or were planning on selling it to help with the PS3 cost, which they shouldn't have done, or can't do now. (even though they could just get the 40g for £50 less and keep ps2...which would have probably got about £50... they dont get the extra two ps3 games)
