| SpartenOmega117 said: dont really know why people want to buy new consoles to play their older games. |
Because good games (or just that a particular person likes, so they are good for him) don't stop being good when a new system arrives, so people may want to keep on playing the ones they bought. Now, for home consoles it's just matter of a lesser convenience issue, having less devices and cables around, but also a greater one, not depending on an old device, possibly out of warranty and/or not produced anymore, so BC may make them feel a lot safer and comfortable. For portables, though, these reason not only apply, but also the convenience one becomes a major one, people don't want to carry around TWO portables to play a selection of their new and old games.
Anyway, as external UMD ripping devices would risk increasing piracy, so Sony could be very wary of them, it could just include an internal UMD drive in some premium models (that this way would need higher capacity batteries and could maybe need to be bulkier too, though).
