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prayformojo on 18 February 2013
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JoeTheBro said:
prayformojo said:
A203D said:
I'm personally not that keen on the idea of streaming games. Mainly because my internet connection is not that good. I hope they give you the option of downloading streamable games so that you have the option of putting them on your hard drive if your internet connection is not 100% reliable.


Here is MY problem.

"PSone runs on the PlayStation 2 through emulation rather than actual hardware. PlayStation 3 will offer the same compatibility for PS2 software and the format will continue forever,"....Ken Kurtargi.

This guy believed BC was an absolute HAVE TO in order to keep people locked into the brand during the transition from one console to the next. Now all of a sudden, we get no PS1 AND PS2 compatibility and only get PS3's in a limited way via streaming? Come on. I plan on getting a PS4, but I'm not into the whole "lets strip something out just so we can resell old games later" way of thinking.

What are you talking about? PS1 and PS2 emulation is expected. Also the only other way to get PS3 BC would be sticking 90% of a PS3 in the PS4.

Where did you read you'll be able to play PS1 and PS2 games on the PS4? And I don't think it's an issue of cost. Sony made the "official" statment back when they were removing BC, that is was about cost. But the ONLY reason the PS3 carried such a heafty price tag was due to the BD drive being so expensive. Imo, they removed BC because they had the foresight of HD remakes AND, lets not forget, the PS2 carried a VERY sweet profit margin. If the PS3 continued on as being a wonder machine, PS2 sales would have been cannibalized. Sony couldn't afford that at the time since the loss on PS3 hardware was so great.

They should stick a cell chip in the thing, and whatever marginal loss is a result of that, they should eat. Having a PS4 that could play PS1,PS2 AND PS3 games? It wouldn't do much for the casual gamer, but the core would rejoice. I'm getting one anyway, but it would make it that much sweeter.