| DonFerrari said:
You are being disingenuous at best. PS3 removed BC, no backlash (removal of Other OS had more backlash than PS2 BC removal), on PS4 you can't play the PS1 classics that you bought on PS3 not much complaining. X1 added BC and didn't increase sales. BS is a "luxury" amenity on the console. If Fifa that is a yearly game with small improvements and prices plummeting months after release doesn't show massive buy from the older/second hand games, because people want what is new and shinier why would it be such a big and important thing to have BC? Even MS numbers (that they offuscate a lot) on the BC doesn't show a very high usage in terms of hours per player per month. It was something like less than 4h/month/user, that isn't something much important. Plus TLOU alone sold about 10M on PS4, if you get all other remasters it had much higher number. You have a lot of emulators that are very easy to use and still remasters/remakes make a lot of success, much more than buying old games to play on new console for the same effect. |
How exactly? Again I stressed a fair case study. PS3 cutting BC was met with a massive price cut of $100. How are you to determine the impact on sales?
Neither PS4 or Xbox One launched with BC and when Xbox One got segmented support we were already 3 years into the generation where it was obviously not going to make a huge dent.
Going back to scenario ahead, the year is 2020 PS5 and Xbox Next just launched, one plays the last 7 years of games that you own and can be up for cheap, the other does not. You honestly think thats a scenario that Sony/Microsoft doesn't care to avoid? And fundamentally you've missed the point I stressed which is that whenever BC has made sense, it has been implemented. Only vastly different architecture, costly hardware based solutions or conflict is storage medium has made the big 3 cut BC. I don't see any of the above being an issue with PS4 > PS5 transitions.
And on your statement "BC is a luxury", I don't think anyone is suggesting otherwise, it's still a no brainer.
Last edited by Otter - on 03 January 2019
