Goodnightmoon said:
You can play half of those games everywhere else, and the other 2 consoles has backward compatibility, so they can play last generation masterpieces but they are not counted on metacritic, wich is kind of ironic to be honest, the one charging you money again for the same games receives more praised just because those games appear on a metacritic list. |
Comparing BC to remasters doesn't really make much sense in this context. Backwards compatibility gives you a way to experience an older game in its original form (or close to it), where as a remaster is intended to provide a version which is inherently superior. It might not be a new game, but you are being offered an experience out of reach for the game's previous hardware, hence they tend to be re-reviewed. It's not like BC doesn't get showered in praised either. It's simply treated as a feature rather than a previously impossible to achieve (assuming it wasn't on PC) version of a game, which makes sense to me.
On a side note, i think it's a bit early to group the WiiU and X1's BC together. We don't yet know how limited the latter is going to be. That they've gotten this far is impressive enough.
