The PS4 really should have backwards compatibility!

[flashfire926]

DonFerrari said:

VGPolyglot said:

And how? Unless he's a shareholder, he already has a PS4 and it's not like they'll increase the price of the console.

Every single R&D cost money and they will have to get it back, it will be charged  in products... and the way you asked on the OP it is more like PS4 should have been developed with BC in mind. So that cost of R&D and manufacturing would be part of the cost of the console that everyone who buys, wanting BC or not would have to pay.

Pemalite said:

I never said there was. Nor does there need to be.
You are forgetting the PC is in the "Backwards compatibility" camp as well remember.

In-fact... Gog.com has made an extremely profitable business out of it.

Besides... Microsoft has generally been met with approbation for it's efforts whilst Sony has been met with disquietude.

All of that is pretty, still on console field so far BC have been more like a token than of significance... sure enough that I don't even consider BC on PC since PCs are BC and FC for decades depending on your build.

From what we know X1 on the months after release of BC had an average of 5m per user who used BC on it.

Sure for me I would like PS4 to have BC on all gens before and wouldn't mind paying the extra cost, but I understand the lack of market interest and that Sony would lose more than win with it.

flashfire926 said:

People arent forced to buy the console. Dont like the backwards compatibility? Don't buy it then.

Most people wouldnt be too bothered by it.

He isn't forced to buy a console for sure, but if you just have the PS4 with BC, then the cost to make BC is charged on it and he can't avoid it and buy a PS4 without it (as going by the discussion premises).

A lot of people were bothered with the extra cost of the kinect they didn't want and you saw what that brought to MS. We also know that PS2 BC on PS3 costed them between 50-100 on the console and it was another point to make it a harder sale on the start of gen.

True. Fair point. But the PS3 and PS2  were very different architectures, so it took much more to implement it. Now, with PS5 most likely going to have X86 architecture with AMD based cpu/gpu (just like the PS4), that cost will likely be well below 50 bucks. Think of how Wii had gamecube BC while only being $249. Or XBO, PS2, GBA, early DS, 3DS, etc.