Welp, So Much For That Generationless Market

[thismeintiel]

Soundwave said:

thismeintiel said:

Lol, you're describing every gen ever. Devs and pubs always support the previous gen. Now, if they make it where you can buy one disc and play it on a PS4 or PS5, you'd have a point, but I highly doubt that's happening. Sorry, MS has no say over what Nintendo and Sony do. 

And BTW, Nintendo has been doing mid-gen refreshes on their handhelds since the beginning, so where has this BS generationless talk been? Oh right, it's only a thing cause MS wants to push it. Doesn't work that way.

Not really. I don't recall a lot of cross gen NES/SNES games or PS1/PS2 games or PS2/PS3 games or XBox/XBox 360 ... those are defined generations, now we are basically going away from that towards developers being forced to make the same game with like 3/4/5 different performance settings. These are basically just PC boxes now, subsidized and sold at cost by Sony/MS with a handful of exclusives and that's it. 

Were there as many as there are now? Probably not. But they still were there. Even more so when we got into the shift from PS1 to PS2. It's kinda hard to ignore 100M+ PS1's out there. Still, you couldn't pop a PS2 disc into a PS1 and expect it to work, just with less quality. That is what defines a new gen. Not whatever BS rational that MS or Xbox fans come up with to try to make them right.