The PS4 really should have backwards compatibility!

[DonFerrari]

smroadkill15 said:

FentonCrackshell said:

BC certainly isn't helping X1. And it certainly didn't help WiiU. And I don't know anyone bout any of those consoles off the basis of BC. Inversely no one didn't buy them because they're not BC. I can't imagine someone saying "I don't want an X1 because I can't play my old X360 games on it." That makes absolutely no sense. Also, we're 5 years into the PS4's life cycle and we're still arguing the fact that it doesn't play games that are probably a decade old.

Look, there are always plenty of new games out there to play. Yes it's nice to have BC but it's not a deal breaker to not have it. When I had a 360, a Wii, and a WiiU I never thought once about playing an XBOX, GameCube, or Wii game. I'm sure that's not "just me". The BC/sales correlation is purely coincidental. As a matter a fact, the BC consoles all released at a time when video games had become extremely more popular and had broader appeal. That's why those consoles so more than the non-BC consoles.

BC wasn't added until a few years after for the X1, so it didn't have the initial impact if it had it at launch. If the console would have launched with it, many X360 owners who switched over to ps4 would of had at least a harder decision to make. No one is strictly buying a console for BC but it does play a factor in a decision being made. 

the extra 100USD probably wouldn't have been enough sweetened by the BC. The whole launch was such a fiasco that BC wouldn't impact much.