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Would you pay more for a Backwards Compatible PS4?

Yes. I'd pay $100 or more extra 76 27.74%
 
Yes. I'd pay about $50 extra 64 23.36%
 
No. I want BC but would not pay more for it. 52 18.98%
 
No. I don't care about BC at all. 82 29.93%
 
Total:274
radiantshadow92 on 16 May 2013

not interested at all



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KBG29 on 16 May 2013

If they can achieve B/C through a $100 add on I am all for it. I would no want any of the basic box expense to be used on B/C though. Much better to have $500 focused on the best next gen experience.



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IsawYoshi on 16 May 2013

Yes



Lyrikalstylez on 16 May 2013

Yes, if It would have b/c I would literally sell my ps3 right now and buy a ps4 at launch but because of still missing on some good games and some great ones still coming out....I will probably hold out on getting ps4 for a while



walsufnir on 16 May 2013
kitler53 said:
walsufnir said:
kitler53 said:
i'd pay up to $100 for BC but i kind of just hope for some sort of ambassador program with BC via gaikai streaming. their is only 5 or so games i'd really want to port over and keep playing next gen anyways.


I am really looking forward to Gaikai and how the real-world-experience with it will be but by now I have serious doubts this is an appropriate solution. Definitely worse than "real" bc or even emulation from a technical point of view.


what are the doubts?

i've spoken out against "always online" being manditory for hardware and i do still believe that.  too much of the world is just not ready for that yet, that's just being realalistic.  but a good portion (and most importantly,.. myself) is ready.   i tried gaikai's demos like the day sony bought them and it worked great for me.  i'd love a really good cloud solution.  i already use it for my music which is great for when i'm at work or my mother-in-law's house.

yeah yeah, onlive failed.  but i think sony or MS can make it work.  the biggest problem, imo, with onlive is it didn't support a large enough percentage of new games.  none of MSonintendoy's exclusive and only like 1/3 of the third party games.

anyways, i'm an early adopter in a lot of regards.  i'm ready now.  in 5 years i think cloud gaming will be fairly mass market.. or at least could be if they don't fuck it up too badly.

 

..which brings me back around to my point.  BC via gaikai (aka pre-populating my cloud gaming account with lot of "free" games) sounds great to me.


As I said, I have technical doubts. Online gaming is *very* sensitive to latency and as we all know having more than 1 client in your network doing traffic latency can jump easily over three times what you have in an optimal scenario. But this is only "your" side: The other are the data-centers which have to be connected very close to your isp and they have to deliver the packets fast, too. This will cost a *lot* of money because you have to have many data-centers with very high power and very good internet-connection all over the world.

My company did the connection for onlive in 2011 and our network-guru had to do a lot of fiddling so that gaming was "ok".

Also, as it is given that you will have latency, I think some games are not really made for game-streaming, especially fast-paced ego-shooters.



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sully1311 on 16 May 2013

When Gaikai sort out streaming the legacy games, it will be a subscription service.



kupomogli on 16 May 2013

With the PS3 I don't mind so much since it's already in 720/1080p, doesn't look like crap in HD, but PS2, once you go 1080p upscaled you never go back. If my PS3 ever dies on me and I don't get my current bc model fixed, I'll use PCSX2.



the2real4mafol on 16 May 2013

Yes, it would be a nice feature but it must work with PS1, PS2 and PS3. Not just PS3



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walsufnir on 16 May 2013
the2real4mafol said:
Yes, it would be a nice feature but it must work with PS1, PS2 and PS3. Not just PS3

PS3 hardware-bc, PS1 and PS2 via software. Could easily be done.



Andrespetmonkey on 16 May 2013

I could sell my PS3 for about £100 so that is how much extra I'd pay.



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