How PS4 backwards compatibility could make Sony alot of money...

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

Lafiel said:

Nintation360 said:

Since Xbox One and Wii U had their own backwards compatibility that leads to the PS4 the only current gen system without the feature  Sony adding the feature would give them loads of cash! Why?... Well if they released backwards compatibility.. I would sell my PS3, and purchase 3 PS4 games!!!! Game sales would totally go up for the PS4 Library by the thousands of people selling their PS3s to buy more PS4 games! and also people would totally buy PS4s too!  What are your thoughts???

we have been over this a thousend times on the forums

the PS4 simply is not strong enough to brute force PS3 emulation, because the Cell for all it's shortcommings also had some great strengths (outperforms PS4 CPU in certain calculations) the devs used to create the best looking PS3 games .. these are simply not emulateable on PS4

and the less demanding games probably all need an individual emulator to work which is financially unfeasible, especially because demand for b/c is low and will become lower with every passing month

You don't really need emulation for backwards compatibility.

Furthermore, speed of a cpu doesn't isn't a direct correlation with power. Rather the issue is compounded by the difference in ISA. But again, emulation isn't a hard requirement for backwards compatibility if you utlize the network ala XB1.