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Conina on 27 July 2014
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archer9234 said:
Conina said:

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.

But it's easier to keep your old consoles still, than to deal with a PC. You just need: Model 1 PS3, PS4, An SNES with 3rd party NES game adapter, n64, Wii model 1, Wii U. Sony 2, Nintendo 4. And if you factor in VC stuff. 2 Nintendo consoles.

Not every PS2 game was PS3 compatible, even to the launch-model. Ratchet & Clank 2 didn't ran on my PS3, Ratchet & Clank 3 had massive slowdowns, Jack Bauer and his enemies were invisible in "24 - The Game"... so we are already at 3 PlayStations, if you want to play *all* games... plus 4 Nintendo consoles, plus 3 Xboxes. Yeah, it's much easier to keep 10 consoles than 2 PCs. ;)

And if we factor in VC stuff (where only a fraction of the classics is available), we can also factor in PC emulators, ScummVM, DosBox and VMs.