sc94597 said:
If there were large enough demand I am sure Microsoft would bring Xbox Original games. There isn't, and they chose to do the much harder task of bringing 360 games instead, because of higher demand. Yes, but Nintendo isn't providing a service that sells Gamecube games as a replacement. If they were committed to Gamecube BC they would just unlock Gamecube controller support in Wiimode the same way the mod works. Since people can already do it themselves, it isn't a big issue. I never said video games aren't media. I said they aren't OTHER media. It is perfectly legal per fair-use to rip the songs from the CD and put it on your mp3 player. But it is a silly discussion because an mp3 player ONLY plays digital media, and not discs. The PS4 supports the physical media via hardware. That is a ridiculous comparison, as nobody is talking about running PS3 games on the PS4, and Sony has already made an emulator in this situation. That is how these games work, via emulator. Sure there are specific tweaks in addition to the emulation, but the core of it is an emulator. They aren't obligated. But we are talking about appealing to consumers. Nobody is obligated to do anything, but they sure should if they want to keep in touch with the competition, and they don't want to come off as arrogant like they were at the start of the PS3 era. Anti-consumer policies are going to push consumers away, and not supporting games off the original discs because you want to make even more profits by manipulating people to rebuy their games - for some even a third time - is anti-consumer. Please get your quotations right. i never sold off any of my PS2's. They broke because they have shit lifespans, and the only one that is in half-working condition is a phat which I don't want to lug around. It isn't much of an issue because I can emulate my games on my PC. And overall this is not a personal issue, as like I said, I can emulate my games on PC. Nevertheless, I will call Sony out on anti-consumer practices. There can't be installs to the HDD? What technology prevents that? Who said I will be carrying my games with me at all times? I can't have three or four games that I am playing over a long period and then switch them when I go back home again? Like I said, consoles break. Sometimes buying the game again is the cheapest option. At the very least PS3 digital classics should had transferred to PS4 like Wii virtual console games transferred to Wii U. Fortunately in this circumstance the PS4 DOES have the hardware (and now the software) to play PS2 titles. Again, your comparison fails. Except it DOES support the media physically and now through software. The lack of support for games off the disc is an arbitrary decision by Sony. If Sony had the attitude of not providing services they don't owe their consumers, then they wouldn't be in first place right now in home consoles sales. That is the point of competition and appealing to consumers. The PS4 is such a success because Sony did a lot of what consumers wanted. |
You are missing the point of all of this.
You did not buy a game to play on a PS4. You bought it to play it on a PS2. That's it, nothing else.
It is not ANTI-Consumer for a company to take a decision to not support a previous platform's software on a current platform. Why is that so hard to understand?
You even acknowledge that nobody is obligated to give you this.
I am not saying that people are wrong to want the option.
I am saying that people are wrong to demand it as something that is rightfully theirs, when it's not.
Anti-cosumer would be if a company would take away your right to play your games on the platform you've bought them on.
However Sony chooses to offer BC, as long as they do not mess with what they've previously done, they are doing no wrong. I would stand behind this for any of the Big Three. As long as you buy a game for a specific platform, that is all there is to it. As long as the game works on the platform you've bought it for, that is as far as anyone owes you anything.