JinxRake said:
Soooo...I would need to hack the console to play games from a previous system? Yeah, not seeing your point very well here. I am going as far as I like because I find the duplicity of threads like this ridiculous. You buy a game and you play it on the system that you bought it on. That's it. That's as far as it goes. Getting BC on some consoles is a cute bonus, but it's ridiculous to expect a company to give you a game for free on ANY platform that they release further on. It doesn't work like this ANYWHERE in entertainment. I am not owed by a publishing house every single new iteration of a book I have bought from them ten years ago. If I buy a musical album today, does that mean the publisher owes me every single revised version and remastered version of said album from here on out?
I drive a Golf. Next year Volkswagen will probably release a new model with features that my car doesn't have. Am I owed said features? |
No you can play Wii games fine on Wii U - every single one. But if you also want to play any Gamecube game it literally is a five minute mod away. Nintendo didn't support GameCube games because initially they weren't interested in bringing the GC controller around, and backwards compatibility runs in Wii mode. How many PS3 games can you play on PS4?
As for your allusion to other media: 1. Video Games are not other media. They have different standards and expectations. If backwards compatibility is possible, then that is one of them. 2. Can you not play DVD's and CD's on your Bluray player? Can you not play downloaded media through usb/sd card on your blu-ray player/sound system?
And nobody is saying give new content away for free. People are saying that they should support the originally purchased games. The PS4 CAN read PS2 discs. The PS4 CAN emulate PS2 games off the disc with the original content.
It is the standard on PC, Wii U, and now even XBO to support backwards compatibility. Why shouldn't Sony do the same?
