Why do people make such a big deal about backwards compatibility?

[Ganoncrotch]

ganoncrotch said:

Heavenly Sigma said:
Things break down. It's nice to have that new console to take the old ones place just in case. Plus PS2 games on PS3 were awesome. They got rid of the slow downs on fighters and I'm sure on other games aswell.

Have you ever seen Marvel VS capcom 2 on the Xbox running on a pal 360? :D That is one time I think backwards compatibility should just not be there, while the game will boot from the disk it can't render the sprites correctly at all, they're just a mess but... you can play the game... as long as you are fine playing with distorted characters.

Saying that Tekken Tag Tournie for the PS2 does not run properly on Pal 60gb ps3 as well, slowdown all over the place, no idea why it's in Tekken Tag because Tekken 4/5 work as smooth as butter and those games are 10X the graphics of Tekken Tag.

 

Skip to about 40 seconds in, just crazy that they even allow this to boot.