I wish there was some way to see who uses the feature and who doesn't.  I mean, I see people say it's not an important feature and to many, it isn't.  I always appreciate it, though.  I used the hell out of it on every console that offered it last gen and this gen.  Plus, with XBO players being able to play online with Xbox 360 players, the feature should be more useful now, than ever.  Since my 80GB PS3 broke, I would buy a new PS3 in a heartbeat if I could access my PS2 games, again.

yes. But that is never the case. I recall PS2 games looking worse on the PS3 than they did on the PS2.

But again, I have my PS3 still, it is in great working order, and I have not used it in over 1 year (when I played SO4). So lets say the PS4 had BC, in the 20 months I have owned my PS4 I would have played 1 PS3 game on it.

The way I see it Sony doesn't need to because they're constantly getting exclusive games (big or small) so their PS4 library is growing significantly. Whereas XB1 isn't getting as much as the PS4 so to make their XB1 library seem larger they had to add backwards compatibility which is great for fans but to me it also shows it as a sign of desperation. If MS had backwards compatibility from the beginning then that would look different.

Umm, Sony has a product for that specific problem, It's called a PlayStation 3.

My PS2 bumped the resolution up for most games quite a bit ( but MGS3 took a hell of a performance hit during the battle with The Fury).  Same for PS2 running PS1 and Xbox 360 running Xbox games.

I haven't used my PS4 to run 1995 games, either.  I use my Vita for that, though!  And after playing Mass Effect on Xbox 1, the game ran better than it ever did on Xbox 360.  We'll agree to disagree but, like I've said in multiple threads, I've always taken advantage of BC whenever it was offered.

*edit* looking at my site, the last PlayStation game of any kind that I've played (that will change when I get Batman on Tuesday! Preorder paid off!) was LBP3..... On PS3.  It's a dead console for some but for others, it lives on.  Good games don't have an expiration date.  PS3 had some good games.  The PS4s arrival doesn't change that.

While I understand that it would be exceedingly difficult to make games designed around the Cell work on the new hardware I think that part of MS's approach is really interesting. They use the 350 disc solely as a ticket to download and then play the game from the hard drive. I think that PSNow should adapt something like this and I think it's much more of a possibility to make a system that would allow PS3 discs to be read simply as tickets to then play said games on PSNow.

I don't expect the impossible, but I think the above is a doable solution that Sony should definitely look into.

Reminds me of when M$ said they had a product for gamers that want to play games offline called Xbox 360.  But there's nothing wrong with adding as much value to your current box.

That's essentially what I was going for
In all seriousness, it is certainly a welcome addition to any console and kudos to MS for the initiative (although I'm not completely sold on it, giving how restrictive it actually is) Personally, until my PS3 gives out, it doesn't affect me at all.

I honestly don't think people are using PS Now for playing their old games, I think it's for people who didn't have access to that library at all.

Honestly its both really