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| alabtrosMyster said:
I think this is multi facetted: - A remake that runs in 1080p/60fps is worth much more to me than the original 720p/sub 30fps games, so backward compatibility or not, I would buy remakes like those for the games I want to replay (Uncharted series, God of War 3 come to mind)... - Backward compatibility with the Cell would have allowed me to keep games that already run great on the PS3, like Wipeout HD, however, the cell architecture is useless these days because it would have cost a lot of money to develop something that performs as well or worst than the GPU they have in there right now and we would have ended with a 600$+ console again, not only that but they would have been locked in with nvidia, which are notoriously bad business partners for a console maker (they keep the price of their parts relatively high). Now hopefully they will add emulated backward compatibility for PS1 and PS2 titles, so we can pop-in our very old discs and at least play these games. So all in all, it makes sense that Sony (and MS) went in the direction they did, it's a question of bang for the bucks. |
We are few of a total audience though, I am not concerned over HD remakes when I have a working console with the Uncharted series on still. But I understand your reasoning.
Sadly, while PS2 emulation could happen, but I thought the PS4 didn't have CD ROM technology in it so PS1 discs could not be read anyway.
Hmm, pie.
