richardhutnik on 11 March 2013
| Fayceless said: Lower Price or BC? Which is more you important to you? But more importantly, which is more important to the gaming market at large? Lower price beats a feature that few people would care about. It may seem simple for PS4 to play PS3 games, they both use blu-ray after all, right? But the PS3 is so vastly different than other consoles, while the PS4 is a more standard design. It would take a lot of work to get the PS4 to properly emulate a PS3, and it might not even be possible with their different hardware designs. |
What matters is transitioning to new platform from older version. I understand possible need to drop it, but lack of backwards compatibility means a lack of a hook for owners of prior generation to migrate up. People will stall and wait for things to pan out and milk the content of current generation.
