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LethalP on 24 July 2017
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Turkish said:
LethalP said:

As we know MS has drifted away from traditional exclusives on console in favor of service exclusives, UWP being their service. However, I am still in favor of keeping games exclusive to a console for having a reason to buy it sort of thing. Though I do think MS have one thing right, and that's building up their ecosystem, mainly with backwards compatapility.

While it's true not everyone cares about this feature, it's more of a long term plan. They are growing closer and closer to having all the best 360 games playable on Xbox One, and soon probably the rest of UWP where ever it may end up. And not only can you insert your 360 discs but they are also on Xbox live and purchaseable with their achievements in tact. This is building a massive library to boot and as a result they have a massive head start on Sony.

Imagine if Sony took to bringing PS3/PS2/PS1 BC to PS4 with every game worth their salt on the PSN Store. Not even bringing it to PC, but exclusive to Playstation hardware. It would be their own way of competeing with not only UWP, but Steam, with the added advantage of needing their hardware to access this vast library. This would give PC's a run for their money too since there's a whole lot of games on Playstation consoles over the years that aren't on PC. If I want to play a game like Klonoa on my PS4 I can just download it and do so, or Pandemonium, Xenogears. Some of these could rake up 100's of thousands of sales each. And they could carry over for good since everything Playstation going forward will be X86, same with MS.

What do you think? Should Sony be focusing on an ecosystem instead of resetting their library every generation, falling behind the competiton in choice?

You forgot 1 fundamental thing that changes everything: people buy new consoles to play new games. If MS was right about anything, Xbone S would outsell PS4 thanks to its BC library, but it's getting beaten badly even in America. PS4 almost sold 400k last month in the US, Xbone about 150k. BC does nothing. It makes a lot of noise on hardcore forums but the mass market doesn't care for it.

BC is nice to have and thanks to the architecture PS5 will likely have PS4 BC, but it's not a necessity for Sony to dominate another gen.

In my opinion BC has been a waste of MS' time, BC only mattered when going from SD to the HD era, but PS360 are both HD. "but better performance", yeah I rather have remasters with better everything than a stable 30 fps.

I've stated my stance somewhere in the thread, but let me get this straight, I know PS4 is winning, I know it's bringing more games and has a much brighter future when it comes to games going forward, and that is the primary focus all gaming companies should have. But this isn't just a case of PS4 being backwards compatible, it's the case of all Playstation consoles going forward having access to the lexicon of games that Playstation has had to offer since it's inception. Why is that something to be at odds with?

It isn't about the PS4 vs Xbox One, it's about Sony and MS preserving their libraries but then I get some angry fanboys saying how irrelevant that is because their company of choice isn't doing it, and how new games are all that matters.

I could care less about the buisness end of things, what makes Sony money or their consoles sell means nothing to me. I just think it would be cool to have Playstations classic games available under PSN. Xbox Live now has most of the best 360 games available for download in it's ecosystem, and that's a hell of a good start. I suppose I could just emulate PS1 and PS2 on my PC, but this would be a good way of doing it legitimately. We are talking a library of thousands of PS games from 1994 to 2017 available under 1 roof, and all fanboys seem to care about is damage controlling for Sony as to why this isn't logical or feasible. That's called being a shill.