Speculation: Will Sony announce PS3 BC tomorrow

[Mr Puggsly]

Turkish said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Oh yeah, adding value to a new console via BC is incredibly pointless. Meanwhile PS Now is a thing being pushed on PS4.

Honestly I dont see any value in BC for last gen HD consoles. It's totally pointless and waste of Sony's finances, I still have my ps3 hooked up, ps3 is still getting new games even, why would I want another console to play its games, it's still 720p. If I could get a cheaper PS4 without that BC I definitely would, all their effort should go to make PS4 and its games great.

PS3 BC would only make sense if it rendered the games in higher res and better framerate and Neo won't (be powerful enough to) bruteforce those.

Waste of Sony's finances? To the contrary, it could be a revenue stream. If PS4 could play PS3 then they could sell PS3 games to PS4 owners. Much like 360 titles are available in the X1 marketplace. It also makes PS Plus a greater value if those free PS3 games work on PS4. Sony has and continues to push PS1 and PS2 games digitally.

Frankly, many people have been using 360 games on X1. There is great demand for PS4 to do the same with PS3 games. I personally have a backlog of 360 titles and there are a lot of 360 games I want to replay down the road. I like being able to do that on the X1 with features like recording clips and I see a lot of Twitch users streaming 360 games via the X1.

For the past few months we've been seeing 360 games actually performing better on the X1 (improved optimization). Its possible the Scorpio has the power to boost games to 1080p, I just don't expect them to do it.