AlfredoTurkey said:
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. |
I can assure you it has nothing to do with hardware sales. PS3's sales (just like the 360's) are pretty much non-existent at this point. It may to some extent have to do with Sony wanting to remaster some titles from the PS3, but more than anything it's because BC reduces software sales. If you can play all your last gen games on your current gen console, you may buy fewer current get games, which in turn leads to less cash to Sony. Couple that with the fact that it would require and abnorm amount of effort and resources to do so (resources which could've been put into other stuff, like making more new games for the PS4), it doesn't make sense for Sony, in any way. I'd rather them use that effort to create more new PS4 games, than trying to create an emulator for PS3 games. Remasters at least provide a financial return for Sony, and gives them resources they could put in other projects, backwards compatability is just a loss project.
