I said it for the PS3 and i'll say it again for the PS4.
They should have designed the console with an expansion slot where you basically insert the neccessary hardware of a previous console to make it BC.
That way people could buy the backward compatibility optional. And it wouldn't even matter much what they charge for it.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







