Kasz216 said:
leatherhat said:
Kasz216 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
I have no doubt that PSN only games will be supported since they all are lower end games as most are multiplatform anyway. But the bigger retail games could end up being left in the dust is Sony doesn't go with a Cell compatible chip like is rumored.
As for me, I always keep my consoles so while I find backwards compatibility convenient it's not a deal breaker because I can always pull out my old system. With that said, there aren't many PS3 exclusives that I've ever felt the need to replay so I'm not sure if I'll even feel the need to go back during the next gen. I'll definitly want to replay games like the Mass Effect and Portal series but I didn't get them on PS3. |
The problem i have is... even well maintained, modern consoles seem to break easy... at least the Sony ones do. (I believe the original Xbox dies pretty easy too right?)
While my Bally Astrocade, Atari, NES and SNES work...
Neither of my PS2's work and my PS1 doesn't work....
I'd be shocked if my Ps3 worked in 4-5 years.
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It's one of my big reasons for shifting to PC gaming.
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With older consoles you can just emulate everything anyway
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I could, except i live in a country where for most practical purproses it's illegal...
and where the few legal uses of it like Bleem! get stomped out by countless harrassing lawsuits.
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The other thing is the PS3 will be very difficult to emulate because of it's architecture. Dolphin and PCSX2 still have a fair amount of issues, many more than the PSX and N64 emulators did, and the complexity of the PS3 cell seems years away from being able to emulate because of the amount of SPU's from a pure power standpoint, And they'd have to reverse engineer the much more complex architecture.
But my xbox 360 failed, ps2 failed, and PS3 likely will. w/o backwards compatibilty I probably won't buy a PS4 (Sony is under no obligation to make it B/C, but I'm under no obligation to buy it).
Maybe if FF or MGS are PS4 exclusive I'll change my mind, because those are the only franchises I'm really attached to on console. (Started them both on PC actually), and imo both are getting worse, but I'll come to that bridge later.
