LethalP on 24 July 2017
| Zkuq said: Weak backwards compatibility and related uncertainty is probably the biggest reason I'm steering further and further away from console gaming and towards PC gaming. I've been more of a PC gamer almost always, but I didn't really have anything against console gaming either. I started to like console gaming less and less during the 7th generation, and now I don't like it very much anymore. |
See to me one of the biggest draws to a platform like Steam is the ability to play a game as old as Half Life 1 and Overwatch under the same service. We don't think of that as backwards compatibility, it's just an old game we can play on any modern PC thanks to Steam. Imagine if PS and Xbox let you do the same but with their library? I could go buy a PS1 game as easily as buying the newest game and it would all be under the PSN service. They would carry over to new PS consoles as they release just like Steam games do on new PC's. That's what I think MS are trying to achieve. Their 360 emulation can only get better as time passes and Xbox consoles become more powerful. It's a long term process and I think MS have it right.
