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DakonBlackblade on 16 July 2014
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ikki5 said:
the-pi-guy said:
ikki5 said:
So i take it this is why there was no backwards compatibility.

The reason there is no backwards compatibility is the same reason there was no backwards compatibility for N64, SNES, and GCN for Nintendo.  And to a lesser extent Xbox One, Xbox 360.  It's too expensive.  

lol, That's a lame excuse. The play is a blueray player that can play both PS4 discs and Audio discs. How much money would it really cost for them to make it so the PS4 can play.... other blueray discs, compact discs and such. I got a $30 DVD drive and it can run all of those. This is nothing more than a cash grab plot.

Beeing able to run PS3 games ina PS4 is a lot more intricated than having the Blue Ray player able to read the PS3 discs. They basically need to make a machine that functions and is programmed in a very different way than a PS3 think it is a PS3 and theres a lot of programming, time and money investment that goes into that. Theres a reason why the first thing PS3 did to reduce its selling price was to release a model with no backwards compatibility...