Soo... Who on this site honestly cares about backwards compatitbility?

[NightDragon83]

attaboy said:

NightDragon83 said:
You gotta love the feeling of entitlement among today's gamers. They feel they should be given anything they want.

Newsflash: From the introduction of the NES, there were ZERO major home consoles that were backwards compatible with their predecessors up until the release of the PS2. (The only other one was the Genesis being backwards compatible with the Master System, but that required the user to buy a separate module). And as far as I know, nobody EVER complained about not being able to play their old games on their new systems.

Then Sony went and spoiled everyone by making the PS2 b/c with PS1 games, and now all of a sudden everyone expects that every console will at least be b/c with the previous generation's library. Nevermind the logistics involved in doing this, from the added costs to the different architecture between console generations....

Nintendo made the Wii b/c with the GC because the Wii was essentially two GCs duct-taped together in the first place, so it wasn't much of a stretch nor much of an added cost (other than including the controller and memory ports). And the Wii U is essentially a Wii in HD with a tablet controller.

M$ made the 360 b/c with select Xbox games via emulation. And then the PS3 tried to be b/c with both PS1 and 2 until Sony realized how futile this was and removed all b/c for PS2 because of the different architecture, which is also the reason why PS4 is not b/c with PS3.

But as usual, the spoiled entitlement generation wants everything their way. Of course, they wouldn't want to fork over the extra $$$ it would cost if the Xbone and PS4 were in fact b/c. Not only should these gamers have everything they want, but it should also be FREE, dammit!

Oh.  You're one of those guys that doesn't count Atari consoles.  It's okay to be wrong sometimes.

Anyway, since the PS2, lots of things have become pretty much standard to some degree.  Are we entitled because we expect gaming consoles to have Netflix (for example)?  And hey, if there were some Genesis styled add-on for the PS4 or Xbox One, I'd pay extra for it.  Calm your boobies.

Um, I clearly stated in my post I was talking about the post-Atari game industry (NES and on), but if you really want to nitpick and go that far back, yes Atari had b/c, but only on the 7800 out of the box... the 5200 required a module just like the Genesis did for Master System b/c, but that was more of a response to Coleco and Intellivision who both had  2600 adapters for their consoles (yeah, weird world when you can play the competition's games on your console).

And last time I checked... nobody had run out to buy a 7800 for its awesome b/c with 2600 games when it was released.  Bottom line is b/c is a nice thing to have, but it's far from necessary.  And with game consoles being vastly different from each other every generation, b/c isn't as simple as say having a Blu Ray player play DVDs, or older Windows games working with newer versions.