Next architecture being an evolution of current one should make it easy. Legally there's no problem, it actually widens the potential user base that can buy and play existing games without the need to port them, so it's a pro-consumer feature that gives devs some advantages too. It makes more difficult to sell the same game twice to the same person, but this OTOH is an anti-consumer behaviour that no sane dev or publisher, even desiring it, will want to be caught openly defending it. Pressures are possible, but they won't go very far, and anyway remastered and enhanced PS5 and XBTwo ports will be definitely possible and people won't consider them negatively as trying to block BC for existing versions. As for digital market BC, PC and Android already solved the issue in a totally pro-consumer way, while consoles already have mildly satisfying policies that can improve, nothing forbids it. Last, but not least, if console market is roughly as large as total (dedicated plus casuals) PC gaming market and three times larger than dedicated PC gaming market, Android market is far larger than total PC and total console ones, so Android plus PC definitely made BC a feature that the vast majority of gamers considers almost granted, consoles resistance would be futile.
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