Sony's Jim Ryan on old Gran Turismo Games: "Why would anybody play this?"

[thismeintiel]

Chris Hu said:

thismeintiel said:
As has always been the case, B/C is a nice feature to have, but in the grand scheme of things it means jack shit. If it did, XBO wouldn't be selling so poorly.

I do have to say, though, Sony has got to be planning on bringing PS1 B/C to either the PS4 or PS5. Otherwise, there's little to no reason to keep PS1 games up on the store. I also expect the PS5 to be B/C with the PS4, since they are most likely sticking with AMD and the x86 architecture.

But it isn't selling poorly.  It passed the 25 million units sold mark a while ago and if had more up to date numbers it probably already passed the Sega Genesis /Mega Drive the best selling Sega console ever.

You're comparing it to 4 generations prior?  When the market was still in its relative infancy?  And the best selling home console was NES with 60M?  In the current market, the newly expanded one after the PS1 helped it grow, where the market leader sells 100M+, 25M isn't good.  Especially when a lot of those sales came from firesales that cut into Xbox profits.  It's also down YOY, with 2015 being its peak year.  There's a reason MS refuses to give any updated numbers, and its not because it's doing well.  It's the same reason MS is cutting Xbox's budget.