Words Of Wisdom said:
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. |
On the contrary, I'd speculate differently...
Most "new" gamers won't start gaming with a hugely expensive beast like the PS3. I can imagine it would be quite hard for a 12 year-old to convince mommy and daddy to drop $400~$600 on a toy.
Most "average" gamers this generation likely started their gaming experience with the PS or PS2. Not being able to play their old games on the PS3 is probably pretty important to them because those represent the gaming world to them. |
Most average gamers won't toss out their old systems as well. Many will get the PS3 as a gift for Xmas and will be excited for all of the PS3 games that will be coming out for the PS3. The biggest obstacle has been the price of the console, not the ability of BC. Sure, it may be important to you or some other people, but it isn't everything to everyone. And the 40gb will still play the ps1 games, just not the ps2 games as of right now.
Again, we don't know anything about this machine and it could easily be a motherboard revision. If you recall, the 40gb has a new motherboard from a different company, and it could be that they just adapted the 80gb to the new motherboard which may be a lower cost for Sony.
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