If Xb one can do emulation BC for 360, then PS4 should be able to easily do emulation BC for PS2

[Zappykins]

Kyuu said:

Zappykins said:

Opps, I  made that mistake too.

Sure, any console today could emulate the PS2 - but why bother?

If they did that on the PS4 it makes the PS3 look like even a bigger failure as ‘we are going to forget about that console and pretend it didn’t happen.’

I was really surprised and disappointed at launch both the PS4 and Xbox One didn’t included backwards compatibility – at least for the arcade/digital/smaller games.  I could see God of War 4 or Halo 3 not being because they are so specialized.  But PacMan and Flower?  No reason they weren’t BC.

@bolded

Wow, way to completely misunderstand what I said, jump to conclusions and speculation.  How do you even do that?

If Sony skips the PS3 and make the PS4 only PS2 backward compatible – then it makes the PS3 look like something they want to forget.  The PS2 was very successful, Sony made what they thought would be a low cost powerful chip they called ‘The Cell’ for the PS3 and thought they would totally dominate gaming.  But they didn’t, and it didn’t, and the drop in sales of the PS3 and rise of their competitors is still a sore spot with many.  They completely dropped even making the CPU and went to AMD for the PS4.  So it makes more since to make the PS4 backwards compatible with the PS3, but nobody thinks they are working on that.

You may not like it, but most people think backwards compatibility is cool, that’s why the original PS3 had it and why everyone is excited it’s coming to the Xbox One.