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Conina on 27 July 2014
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archer9234 said:

PC's are still not fully easy. They still have problems playing *all* games. For me to play one old game from 1996 (A-10 Cuba) I have to run Windows 95 in Vmware. The sounds or the graphics won't function in W7. Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed and Star Trek Armada still won't work on W7 and my nVida card period. nVida screwed soemthing up with Direct X 6/7 at some point, in their drivers. Fans usually are the ones who fixed compadibitly in old games. But not all games have a fan base that do it. A-10 Cuba is Dx2. The game won't evne install because the isntaller is 16-bit. And windows removed support for that. So you gotta go threw a whole mess to bypass that.

Which for a console, no matter how old. It just works. People can't hang into their old PC's.

So which playstation model can play *all* the playstation games? Every PS game of the 1990's, 2000's and 2010's?

Which Nintendo console can play *all* the Nintendo games? Every Nintendo game of the 1990's, 2000's and 2010's?

Which Xbox console can play *all* the Xbox games? Every Xbox game of the 2000's and 2010's?

If you want to have access to *all* games, you need several consoles. The backwards compatibility of PCs is much better than the backwards compatibility of consoles or handhelds... not every old PC game works on a new PC, but most of them. And for the problematic games you could keep an old PC with Windows 98 available... just like the old consoles.