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UncleScrooge on 02 June 2011

That's one of the reasons I bought a PSP Go and not a 3000. I was pretty sure the NGP would be backwards compatible with PSN games but there is no way to play your UMD games on it (no way that's beneficial to Sony, that is)

I was hoping the games would get upscaled. That's pretty neat



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thismeintiel on 02 June 2011

Now that I think about it, the NGP must be a beast if its doing the emulation completely through software.



 

makingmusic476 on 02 June 2011
Rainbird said:
thetonestarr said:
snfr said:
thetonestarr said:
snfr said:
thetonestarr said:

A big part of backwards compatibility is the ability to play the library that YOU ALREADY OWN on the updated system.

This isn't backwards compatibility. It's the ability to download old games.

...which are also playable on the previous system, so it still is backwards compatibility.


The VC isn't considered backwards compatibility.

You can't play VC versions on the original consoles, but you can play the PSN versions on the PSP and NGP, therefore

Nearly every single VC version is an exact copy of the original, down to not even being rescaled.

That's not what matters though. You can easily have downloaded the PSP games to play on your PSP, and those same games will now play on the NGP. That's why it's backwards compatible.

VC is not backwards compatibility because those games were removed from their rightful storage mediums in order to be played on the new consoles, but downloadable PSP games are in their rightful storage medium as they are.


To put it in simpler terms:

In order to play Super Mario World on both SNES and Wii, you have to buy a copy for each console.  In order to play Patapon on both PSP and PS Vita, you only have to buy one version via PSN.



kurasakiichimaru on 02 June 2011
superchunk said:

Is this really an exciting thing? I assume the greater majority of users own their games on UMD, therefore how does digital backwards compatible even help you? Won't you still have to rebuy the game?

Seems like it shouldn't be labelled as backwards compatibility but mroe of a Sony's own Virtual Console.


Maybe they would do something about it, hopefully.