Ucouldntbemorewrong said:
COKTOE said:
With full BC poised to become the norm in the next round, and digital purchases being bigger than ever, this gen will see a "carry over" effect that's stronger than it's ever been in past generations. Building a customer base has never been more important than it is now, especially for Sony and MS. It would take a monumental series of fuck ups for a gamer to abandon their favorite ecosystem at this point. Nintendo is not exempt of course, but they do exist in a slightly different space. Still competitors, but they are more apt to be paired with a Sony or MS console, as opposed to somebody buying an Xbox and Playstation combo. MS REALLY fucked up more than anybody else. I don't see how they ever get back to XB360 numbers, which, make no mistake, were somewhat padded due to it's high failure rate, and subsequently higher than normal levels of recurrent purchases.
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I think BC at the start of a new generation is paramount. 3 years in it's not that big of a deal.
Come PS5 and XB1X2 BC is going to have to be there, and at 100% compatible to PS4 and BX1, not what it is right now.
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Oh, for sure. Even though it's been done before with the PS2, Wii, Wii-U, DS line, and to a lesser extent, the PS3, it's still going to be the "new" paradigm going forward. The piecemeal, hodgepodge, after the fact approach currently being employed by MS, while laudable, is not even close to the same thing as absolute, 100% BC out of the gate.
