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Forums - Gaming - I do miss backward compatibility

McDonaldsGuy on 17 July 2014

Although I do understand it, it's almost impossible to emulate PS3 or Xbox 360 games and putting PS3/360 hardware in the PS4/One would cost too much and waste too much power... I wish they'd give us like a power converter that the Genesis used. There would be an add-on module with an embedded Cell/RSX graphics chip that would connect to the back of the PS4 via an external PCI bus adapter so it can have access to the PS4's I/O and AV-Out subsystems.

The x86 architecture is fast enough to handle the subsystems necessary to emulate the PS3 properly, due to having 512MB of the memory it needs. Then sell this for like $70 or something.

However instead this generation we are just going to get trounced with 1 year "enhanced ports," uber-expensive subscriptions to play old games, etc. etc. I can honestly see this generaiton of consoles being the last.



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Danman27 on 17 July 2014

I would like backwards compatibility, but it's not a massive deal for me.



jigokutamago on 17 July 2014

Buy a Wii U



McDonaldsGuy on 17 July 2014
Danman27 said:
I would like backwards compatibility, but it's not a massive deal for me.


Yeah I made this thread mainly cause I have an Xbox One and really no games to play, but I'd like to play some of my 360 games but can't anymore...



McDonaldsGuy on 17 July 2014
jigokutamago said:
Buy a Wii U


Wii U doesn't have any games I want to play besides Bayonetta 2.



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curl-6 on 17 July 2014

I don't, my Wii U is backwards compatible. ;)



cannonballZ on 17 July 2014
McDonaldsGuy said:


Yeah I made this thread mainly cause I have an Xbox One and really no games to play, but I'd like to play some of my 360 games but can't anymore...


I am on 360 more often than my XBO at the moment. I didn't want to get rid of it, I also had a huge back catalog of games I still wanted to play. MInecraft is what will definitely have me back on XBO everyday. I hope it releases early August.



jigokutamago on 17 July 2014
McDonaldsGuy said:
jigokutamago said:
Buy a Wii U


Wii U doesn't have any games I want to play besides Bayonetta 2.

Maybe you will like the games after you play them.



McDonaldsGuy on 17 July 2014
cannonballZ said:
McDonaldsGuy said:


Yeah I made this thread mainly cause I have an Xbox One and really no games to play, but I'd like to play some of my 360 games but can't anymore...


I am on 360 more often than my XBO at the moment. I didn't want to get rid of it, I also had a huge back catalog of games I still wanted to play. MInecraft is what will definitely have me back on XBO everyday. I hope it releases early August.


Yeah my 360 got stolen. And I really don't know if I should buy another 360 cause they are still super expensive. It'd be so cool if MS would release a power base converter (like the one the Genesis used) for the Xbox One. I'd even pay $100 for it...



McDonaldsGuy on 17 July 2014
jigokutamago said:
McDonaldsGuy said:
jigokutamago said:
Buy a Wii U


Wii U doesn't have any games I want to play besides Bayonetta 2.

Maybe you will like the games after you play them.


I am not going to lie -  Super Mario 3D World turned me off big time. Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 were my favorite games last gen and to see 3D World made me ignore the Wii U. I felt like giving it a chance til I saw the new Zelda and said I'm done with Nintendo. Sucks too cause the Wii was my favorite console last gen.