What Would Be Your Reaction If Sony Announced "True" PS3 Backwards Compatibility?

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

AlfredoTurkey said:

rolltide101x said:

If you think it is possible for a PS4 to play PS3 games then I do not know what to tell you. PS1 and PS2 is possible though

It's not possible as is, but it was possible before they shipped the thing. They COULD have designed it to include PS3 BC from the get go, but chose not to.

It is possible ALA the MS method without any changes to hardware even now. But it would cost Sony more for a feature the mainstream doesn't really care about, the PS4 doesn't need (as it doesn't currently need additional features to sell it), reduces software sales (remasters) ((even though the number of remasters that actually make a bit of money can be counted on one hand))

 

Including PS3 BC via hardware would've made the PS4 DOA, either crippling it to Wii U power levels (many internet ppl say its was too weak on release already) or over pricing it, for a feature nobody wanted kinda of like Kinect ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Its intresting to note that Like PS3, the XB1 was slaughtered till it rejected that extraneous mandatory feature (PS2 BC/Kinect). I still chuckle at the praise MS recieved for flipping the switch on the Kinect (after they spent the entire Summer saying they couldn't just flip a switch) faster than Sony removed the internal "PS2", despite one requiring a complete hardware revision and the other well the other require a switch to be flippped, (cord unplugged). But I'm getting really off-topic here...That's none of my business ( ͡( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ͜ʖ ͡( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))

So it wasn't really an option.