Is Legacy content/backwards compatibility important for a console's success?

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padib said:

theRepublic said:

Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have zero control over what 3rd parties do with remakes/remasters/ports though.  The only thing they can control is backwards compatibility built-in to the console.  They can control their own 1st party properties obviously, but that is a pretty limited form of playing old games if you are just waiting for remakes/remasters/ports.

Firstly it would be more cool if you acknowledge that you missed the fact that the discussion is about both rather than push an argument. But I'll reply.

Whether manufacturers have any control over it does not change the fact that such content can have an impact.

However they do have control. Nintendo showed that remasters and remakes of older games, such as Smash Ultimate, Mario Kart 9, Wind Waker HD, Super Mario Deluxe, Mario 3D collection, Mario All-stars and many other 1st party remasters are very popular. That plus the virtual console and many other 1st party solution play a considerable role in a console's success, again, to varying degrees depending on what their current offering is.

Smash Ultimate is not a "remaster" and refering to it as such only hurts your cause, because it comes off as a desperate reach.

This is not a rebuttal, just a correction to a very tired false claim that should have died the moment it was released (sooner in fact).