DonFerrari said:
freebs2 said:
You gave the awnser yourself, in the past BC was a hassle but with x86 becoming a standard it should be much easier to make Ps5 and Xbox Two "natively" backwards compatible.
As for your previous post, I believe MS has to ask publishers the permission to release thier BC games because technically those game are emulated and this could cause come legal issues. If you are playing an emulated game you aren't just running the original code but your also running the additional emulation code plus maybe some patch or fix to make it run properly. I believe this leaglly colud be seen as an alteration of intellectual property. It would also expalin why BC on Wii and PS2 did not need permissions, since in those cases you were playing just the original code.
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PS3 done SW BC on one of the versions both for PS1 and PS2 games.
The biggest problem imho is that on X1 you need to download the game on the XBL, so they need permission to make it available.
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There is simply just different agreements in place for all platforms.
So what Sony can do doesn't mean Microsoft can legally do the same and vice versa.
I think at the advent of next-gen Microsoft might make some changes to it's agreements to make the entire process easier... Then again, I thought they would have done the same after they finished up with the Xbox 360's backwards compatibility scheme.
