McDonaldsGuy on 19 February 2015
| slashydrunkard said: Something must be said about backwards compatibility here! BC is out of style now because of how bloody difficult emulation is for recent gen games. You expect a certain experience with console games. The only way to make that experience with BC absolutely perfect would be to include the old hardware alongside the new, which isn't very cost effective nowadays. If you guys remember, PS2 had PS1 hardware inside as well, which made perfect BC possible. Everyone knew why the Wii was BC with GameCube games (it was simply an overclocked GC and you know it!). Could you imagine including PS1, 2 AND 3 hardware in the PS4 for a perfect BC video gaming experience? And for the alternative to work (emulation), you would need a system that's extremely powerful. Even godly rigs have issues with PS3 and XB360 emulation. Sure, those machines can run the games, but the experience is not smooth and is prone to failure. You can't have older games crashing and performing below the standard on consoles when people are well aware of the game performing a certain way on the older systems. Of course it's true that companies are capitalizing on this by doing HD remasters and re-releases, but I'm seriously not complaining about HD remasters because they introduce aging series to newcomers and make those older games even more playable for us older gamers. It's just not cost effective these days. |
I would agree with that but Sony could do PS1 and PS2 BC but they don't because it's all about selling remasters and HD remakes.
At best, they should have sold an add-on module with the Cell/RSX system in it that connects to the PS4. The x86 architecture is fast enough to handle the subsystems necessary to emulate the PS3 properly, due to having 512MB of the memory it needs.
