| Fusioncode said: I honestly don't understand why people refuse to buy consoles without backwards compatibilty. Is that hard to just keep your old console? Even if you don't own a last gen system they're very cheap now. Adding BC would do nothing but drive up the costs of the machine and make it an architectural nightmare. |
It allows you to properly move on each generation, the 3ds comes out and I can still play my DS games in it so I can put the old DSlite onto the shelf along with every other old handheld I have in my collection. Got a Vita... still have tons of Psp games I need to finish so I still need to keep my psp handy all the time, also the Vita mp3 player removed the ability to put a sleep timer on music so I also still have to leave music files on my older PSP to hook into my speakers when I'm going to bed.
Basically if the new console can't replace the older model in every way then it will be in competition with it as well as rival companies machines. You still see 10-20k psp's being sold each week because there are certain games which have never and will never appear on the psn store (Every Extend Extra for me is worth the extra piece of hardware alone) so yeah people have to buy the older gen hardware because the Vita can't do it. How many new DS's are sold each week? we don't know... because it's not worth tracking since anyone who wants to play any DS/3DS game has bought a 3DS and added to it's massive sales figures.
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