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JinxRake on 23 December 2015
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sc94597 said:
JinxRake said:
sc94597 said:
JinxRake said:
sc94597 said:
loy310 said:
you bunch of cheap asses.
$10????? bums. I can't ever remember complaining about 10 bux in my life. I would hope that i will never be that broke to snap over $10

 

he PS3. 

 

 

So...let me see if I get this straight: I can now play XBox Original games on an XBox One?

Also...can I play N64 games that I own on a Wii U?

Even better, you can play Xbox 360 games on Xbox One. And why go back three generations for Wii U? Wii U has full backwards compatibility with Wii and if you do a quick homebrew mod in Wii-mode (which is removable)- Gamecube. 

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? 

 

Again...can I play XBox ORIGINAL games on the XBox One?

You've just said yourself that you need to MOD your Wii U to play games from two generations ago.

Video Games are MEDIA.

My MP3 player does not support my music CDs and nobody is gonna give me those songs again for free unless I pirate them.

 

BC is not something that's easily done at times. For the PS3 it's all the more a hassle because of its architecture. Tell me how that PS3 emulator is running at the moment on PCs.

Yes, they could emulate the PS2 and the PSOne. They are not, however, obligated to do so. Nobody ever is.

"I sold off my PS2 when I bought a PS3 and can't play my games on it anymore."

Uhhhh...why'd you sell your PS2 in the first place then?

"I don't want to log around hardware."

But you'd rather log around "all those games".

 

Seriously, some of the arguments of the thread make no sense to me.

Buuuhuuu, they're charging gamers to pay three times to play the same game.

However, who the bloody fuck buys a game three times? I got Crash Bandicoot 3 on the PS3/TV/Vita, only because my physical disc is too scratched to be played properly by my PSX.

Would I pay for it again on the PS4?

NO! I can already play it on three other systems, four even if I charge up the PSP.

My laptop does not have a DVD-Rom. Who will I go to strangle because I can't play Command and Conquer: Renegade now?

Ohhhh...it was my choice to buy a system that does not support physical media up to a point. Well, you see now, I am now not owed anything because I got a system that will not play something that I already own.