Mandalore76 said:
I think that sometimes we miss the point about why PS2 still sells today when XBox and especially Gamecube no longer need to. Nintendo as a company FULLY embraced backwards compatibility for their consumer. The original Wii's (not the new bundles that came out a couple of years ago) play every single game from the Gamecube library. I'm currently playing Tales of Symphonia for Gamecube on my Wii right now. XBox 360 doesn't have as complete a backwards compatibility, but they thought it good enough that they didn't need to continue marketing their previous generation's system. My brother's PS3 crashes when trying to play one of the Final Fantasy games he had for PS2, so yeah, Sony still markets the PS2 for gamers who want to access their old library of games. When the Wii U releases, it will also have FULL backwards compatibility. Therefore, Nintendo will not need to market the original Wii system well into the next generation. People should consider that when referring to the Wii as a dead system, when Nintendo doesn't need to sell last generation's system while their next gen system will support that library all ready. I think that people who hail the continued PS2 sales in this generation as miraculous are bypassing the fact that Sony made sure of that by not included full backwards compatibility into their new system. If today, in 2012, while having neither Sony console to start with, you had a choice of purchasing a system that played PS2 and PS3 games, or having to choose one or the other, what would you choose? I mean, let's not kid ourselves here. If PS3 was 100% backwards compatible, do you really think there would be any need for someone to buy/own a PS2 anymore? When I moved last year, I didn't need to hook my Gamecube back up, because my Wii plays all of those games. I couldn't say the same about my PS2 if I had purchased a PS3. What the real question should be, is do you think that continued software support for PS2 as late into this generation as it was, and incomplete backwards compatibility with the PS3 caused Sony to fall into last place this generation? |
Your post is flawed though, when PS3 1st came out it was fully BC and that was when PS2 kept selling tons. Why get a PS2 when PS3 can do the same thing? It is all up to pricing. My 360 did not play any of my original xbox games except for halo 2. The reason it dropped was because it did what it was supposed to do and Microsoft wanted to focus on their new console.
@bold If I had neither then I would choose PS3 because it has full software support. PS2s are really cheap though :)
