The PS4 really should have backwards compatibility!

[DonFerrari]

VGPolyglot said:

DonFerrari said:

It cost money to develop and make the BC on the console, the customers are the ones that are going to pay for it one way or another.

Yeah, I'm going to pay for it by buying more PS3 games.

And his point is that everyone is going to pay for it even the ones that doesn’t want it.

Pemalite said:

DonFerrari said:

You made the assertion that there are MILLIONS of costumers wanting BC, that should have moved the needle when X1 enabled BC, didn't happen. Sure there may be millions that would use (seems like from X1 that most didn't put more than 30m on it).

 

Correct. I did say millions. Not 10's of millions or 100's of millions.

2 million people wanting backwards compatibility when 100 million consoles have sold is only 2% of the platform base. Think about that for a moment.

With that in mind... One of the greatest aspects of the PC has been backwards compatibility, there is no need to worry about generations.
Last generation the Wii U, Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, 3DS, DS all had backwards compatibility and lots of people used that functionality to various extents.

Is it a game changer? Hell no. But it's a feature that appeals to some.

There haven’t been a 2M sales more than the previous year for X1 on a 30M userbase. So there you have that the supposed public interest wasn’t enough to even sell extra console.