| John2290 said: Fuck that, there is enough new games, we don't need to replay old games. |
Then don't play them. It really is that simple.
But removing choice is not a good thing.
| John2290 said: I really like this new console full reset, keeps me from doing dumb shit like that and I'm sure Sony realize this too, better to have people playing new games than old games. Just gotta remember to keep your PS4 next time when buying the PS5 and you're golden. |
Except... A massive chunk of the PSN library is old games. Only REAL difference is... If you have purchased the games prior, either digitally or physically, you get it for free on the Xbox One.
Your apologetic point of view really isn't an appropriate argument though.
| VGPolyglot said: I believe that it ended up with around 29 games (2 OG Xbox and 27 360), and man it just makes things so much more convenient! |
I am at 121 games, but that is just digital.
Probably over the 300~ mark if I bothered to drop my physical games in.
I just want to keep my Xbox One X as a pure digital machine though so I don't have to deal with Discs.
| Kyuu said: This has been said countless times but.. PS4 apparently cannot run PS3 games through emulation because it simply isn't powerful enough to emulate PS3's unique architecture. On the other hand, BC with PS1 and PS2 should have been implemented from the start. Not having that is downright anti-consumer as far as I know. |
Just because something is stated "countless times" doesn't mean it is true.
I could point to a plethora of "wives tales" that reinforces that fact.
The Playstation 3 emulator on PC actually runs better than the Xbox 360 emulator... And not every game actually leverages the Cell to it's fullest anyway.
However, Sony could have taken Microsoft's approach to emulation, which isn't just strictly emulation, there is virtualization, there is some repackaging, there is abstraction and more... The Xbox One does feature a few Xbox 360 tech natively in the SoC which aids in emulation as well, but that could be abstracted on the Playstation 4 I guess.
In short though... It does require a ton of software engineering, which is Microsoft's forte'.
| pokoko said: Microsoft did it as a PR move because they were desperately trying to recover from the XO launch. |
False.
Because a few standards/features on the Xbox 360 were implemented into the Xbox One chip to aid with backwards compatibility... Which means Microsoft likely planned backwards compatibility well before the generation was started.
Not only that... But Microsoft's Multi-OS virtualization environment on the Xbox One played a role as well.
| CuCabeludo said: You can't just emulate a PS3 game on a PS4 hardware, the architecture differences are too much, as different as X360 and a PS3. |
Microsoft did it. And the power difference between the Xbox One and Xbox 360 is probably allot smaller and the architectural differences just as great.
| FentonCrackshell said: What lesson should they learn? To make their consoles BC and periodically update older games to work on the newer consoles? Or should they keep making big budget sequels and new IPs? The console that touts BC is always the console shift the fewest units. How can you take that as BC being so important? I'm not saying Sony shouldn't add it. I'm saying that it's not that importation. Most gamers agree. |
Correlation doesn't equate to causation, that would be a logical fallacy and thus can be discarded.
| Hiku said: I don't know about that. I'd love to see PS3 BC on PS4, but I don't expect it to happen. |
The Playstation 4 does have the extra GPU resources to offload some tasks done on the SPU's, onto CU's though.
Either way, Microsoft has some amazing engineers and should be applauded for their efforts.
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