4000+ games backwards compatible Day 1. PSN library carries over to PS5

[DroidKnight]

sales2099 said:

LivingMetal said:

But no one cares about Xbox backwards compatibility.  Seriously.  If backwards compatibility was that important, what Microsoft and its acolytes have been preaching all along would have been accurate if the Xbox had outsold the PS4.  But no where close.  Then you have Nintendo's backwards compatibility.  Everyone cares for that.  And if you don't, you don't matter anyway.  Nintendo is a staple, and icon of gaming history.  No one can take that away. You want millions of teenagers to experience the past, you educate them with Nintendo.

Lol I knew I’d see this rather tired excuse. Just because it doesn’t translate into a massive sales boost doesn’t mean people don’t want it. This may come as a surprise but there’s actually a lot of factors that go into how well a console sells relative to another.

I admit it’s not universally used, but many love it. I like the idea of my library carrying forward. Of being able to play a game I missed back in the day. Just beat Skyrim a month ago, and now plan to play backwards with Oblivion and even Morrowind. I’m glad Xbox gives me access. Frankly the argument to turn your back on great games just because they are old is not a stance I agree with at all (just because the majority of casuals don’t care as you said)

Lol.  I just got through typing this in another thread but it applies here as well.

I have a large physical collection in PS3 games.  At launch of the PS3 I purchased the fat PS3 that had the backwards compatibility with PS1 & PS2 games.  I didn't have a PS1 library at the time and didn't accumulate one.  I did start buying up PS2 games though and enjoyed that I could play both PS2 & PS3 games on it.  I eventually suffered the yellow light of death.  I did use it quite a bit.  It was my main Blu-ray player for movies and I feel like the PS4 Blu-ray player was a downgrade. 

When I went to replace this item I found out that later SKU's were only able to play PS3 games and were no longer built for backwards compatibility.  I ended up buying a PS3 slim and as PS2 slim silver to replace it.  The PS2 slim is still wrapped up in it's original packaging and is now worth a shitload more than the $120 I paid for it.  What sucks though is that the hardware is continuing to age.  The electrolytic material contained within the capacitors will dry out whether it's being used or not.  I would have loved backwards compatibility to at least the PS3 games.  

Now I do have quite the backlog on my PS4 and where it has always given me guilt when I stare at the shrink wrap still on most of them, I'm now thankful for it.  I now get to experience my backlog in a higher resolution and frame rate.  Same with the competition's backlog.  As a physical collector the backwards compatibility was a major selling point.  And sometime down the road all old hardware will eventually fail to work.  A complete backward compatibility console would be a device that would, and will continue to interest me.  PS3 had some of the best RPG's and PS2's RPG's to this day are unrivaled. Give me PS4 games optimized to take advantage of PS5's hardware, or at least mine that remain unplayed.