| Dr.Henry_Killinger said: Its intresting to note that Like PS3, the XB1 was slaughtered till it rejected that extraneous mandatory feature (PS2 BC/Kinect). |
Removing PS2 BC had NOTHING to do with sales turning around. As a matter of fact, sales didn't really jump in a significant way until the slim released. It also wasn't costing them nearly what they wanted you to believe at the time. When you consider just how cheap PS2 BC was (and I'm not talking what Sony told us. I'm talking what the independant experts said), imo, they removed BC from PS3 because the Wii had showed them that there was revenue to be had selling old games again digitally. It also allowed them to keep selling PS2's which at the time, was bringing them in some SERIOUS money. The profit margins were HUGE, and Sony didn't want to eat them up by selling PS3's that could play PS2 software. It was a business move and one they repeated this generation.
If Xbox One takes off in the US soon, it won't shock me if Sony pulls the same stunt and allows some PS3 games to work on it's console via emulation. Why? Because removing BC was ALWAYS about reselling old games and not eating PS3 hardware sales (profit margins). It was a shrewed, anti gamer, profit margin making move... nothing more.
