sabvre42 said:
Imaginedvl said:
I think it would be more like that: PlayStation Four backward compatibility would save "PlayStation gamers" a lot of money...
Sony is not interested at all with this perspective...
Not happening...
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This is such a fallacy...
In terms of remasters, there aren't as many as you think.
The people that buy these remasters aren't usually people that played the game recently -- or already own it for the very last gen console.
If they do buy it again -- its because of some major enhancement (see Diablo 3... its not an actual remaster but essentially a remake of the entire game that they relaunched on both consoles simultaneously -- yet abandoned support of the old gen consoles).
By offering previous generation games on the PSN store, they actually continue to gain revenue from legacy games. Final Fantasy VII often sold for $10 -- of which sony probably got between $3-5. This is a game that I actually own on disc, but would repurchase digitally just to ditch the stupid PS1 disk.
You WILL see PS1/PS2 backwards compatability. PS3 just isn't feasible -- if it was, Sony would make way more money from offering those old games digitally on PSN than from not.
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"Such a fallacy"... Really... please :)
Sony (like any business) is going to go for the most profitable. And with their service (PS Now) + the success of the PlayStation Four there is just no valid reason for them to do that. People could play their "existing" PlayStation Three digital or disk games without buying new ones or paying for PlayStation Now. This would save money for gamers... yes... How can you argue with that lol? Like remasters are the only games people would buy... You are not representing the majority when you say that you would re-buy all your disk game digitally, the majority will just put their disk in the console and play it... (saving money in the process).... And I'm not even counting all the digital games gamers already own.
Same goes with Xbox One BC... I'm using all of my "existing" games (digital or not) and I do not need to buy them at all (remaster or not). At the end, it saved me a lot of money for sure. (I'm on the preview so I can already play almost all my digital games)
