I wouldn't expect backwards compatibility to ever be a huge time-consumer. Its value lies in not having to have several devices ready years after their time has passed. It's just naturaly that new games get the majority of time, even by a margin this large.

Personally, I think poor backwards compatibility is one of the biggest reasons I rarely get games on consoles anymore. On PC, there's backwards compatibility basically indefinitely far back, even for a lot of games never released on PC. Sometimes it can take some work but it's practically always doable, and usually everything just works beautifully. On consoles, generally there's backwards compatibility a generation back best, and not longer. But even one generation seems like a lot to ask.

Playstation has always been the console closest to my heart, so it's very saddening to see it handle backwards compatibility so poorly - there's practically none. I bought a lot of PS1 games from Store during the 7th gen, and now none of them are playable on PS4 despite my expectations. It would probably have been quite easy for Sony to get them to work on PS4, yet they chose to ignore it. Due to technical difficulties, I understand the lack of PS3 compatibility, but the lack of PS1 compatibility is unforgivable, and the lack of PS2 compatibility isn't much better either.

I don't play console games older than the 7th gen a lot, but I do have urges to play them semi-regularly anyway. I've played PS1 games several times this year already, and the only reason I haven't played a PS2 game this year is because there's no backwards compatibility to support it. I already have two consoles (PS3 and PS4) under my TV, and there's not room for any more, and switching devices is a relatively big pain due to how everything's positioned.

I'm with you there.  My DVD collection is much bigger than my Bluray one.  And once Bluray hit, I pretty much only bought Blurays, unless it was a more obscure movie that didn't get a Bluray release.  Still, I think it will be like CD and MP3.  Both still exist.  Sure, they don't make as much on CDs as they used to, but it's still enough to warrant them still producing them.

I think Sony may still put a 4K player in the PS5, when the market is a little bigger for it.  But, for now, it is just extremely niche and doesn't warrant the extra $500M Sony could possibly pay (if they sell 50M PS4s from the launch of the Slim and the drive costs an extra $10) to put them in every Slim/Pro.  Even if it was just in the Pro, that would still be $100M-$125M.

Yeah youre right i mis calculated. Its actually an average of 1 day and 6 hours.

Okay, maybe I just misread your OP. I feel like the answer is simple, people want BC that supports what they already own. When PS Now was originally announced I recall Sony fans assuming they could use content they already owned, but it turned out to be a rental service and all hype died. If I still didn't answer your question, lets just move on.

I did not call Kerotan ignorant. He makes terrible arguments driven by his bias, but I don't think he's ignorant.