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

[DonFerrari]

Pemalite said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

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.

Problem is that it doesn't matter if it's X2 or X360 BC we are talking about the agreement made at the time of the original game =p