Can MS & Sony just simply make next gen fully BC?

[Mr Puggsly]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Here's my counter argument. Is it more profitable for Sony and MS to ignore BC to push remasters. Or is it instead more profitable to sell hundreds of BC games on new consoles and use them on subscription services?

MS has essentially handled this in an ideal way. They allow people to use their old discs and digital purchases, but they also allow people to buy virtually any game on BC digitally. They are also adding games that were never available digitally before on Xbox like Rage, Lost Odyssey, and Final Fantasy XIII. Its possible MS still sells millions of OG Xbox and Xbox 360 games digitally. BC content is also content used for Game Pass and Xbox Live. I think for the first time this month an OG Xbox game was used on Games with Gold.

It seems to me Sony selling PS1 games on the PS3, PSP and Vita was successful enough. You can even buy notable PS2 games on PS3 and PS4. But they don't put the same effort on getting content and frankly I don't think people have the same enthusiasm about 5th and 6th gen as much as 7th gen. Sony instead uses PS3 content on PS Now, but that's too expensive and streaming is not ideal for overall fidelity.

I think there is gonna be huge demand for BC on 9th gen consoles and that's why both Sony and MS are going to do it. It would also look bad is one offers it and the other does not.

But as Sony CEO said in the past, BC is often demanded, but rarely ever actually used apparently. Which means that while there's no technical reason why there's no BC, it has no guarantee to be included into the PS5. For MS, it wouldn't make sense to leave it out, but for SONY, it's the other way around. 

C'mon, in one hand they're suggesting people don't care BC. On the other hand they still sell old games.

Sony just released a device that plays PS1 games (badly). You can buy emulated PS2 games on PS4 and you can play PS3 games on PS Now. To be blunt, Sony is full of shit and downplayed BC because emulating PS3's CPU is difficult/impossible with the PS4's CPU. Emulating the 360 was easier because the CPU was more common tech and less capable.

MS and Nintendo say dumb shit as well. Simply try to decipher why they say it.