Yeah, but I'm not interested in paying again for something I already own - especially when the improvments are very insignificant. I might actually be more willing to pay if I could trust I could play what I own in the future, but after Sony dropped support for (even digitally sold) PS1 games after PS3, I have little faith.

Their arrogance is the exclusion of 1440p resolution which has been available since the Dark ages. The fact they said they could add it if theirs demand. That would mean if developers doesn't want 4k then it will be 1080 and if they choose dynamic then the lowest Res will be 1080p which is disappointing. The fact u don't have expandable storage for the time being shows arrogance as they expect people to be okay with deleting games and reinstalling them

Can't really blame them. Data on the amount of people that actually use BC is not good. It's a hardly used feature. I think gamers who post on forums and stuff sometimes forget just how in the minority they are when it comes to gaming. I easily game more than anyone I know except for one other guy I work with. Neither one of us really goes back to play old games like that. At most we go back to the 360\ps3 gen and that's it.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/backward-compatible-xbox-360-games-are-less-than-2-of-xbox-one-usage-time/

You are never ensured of anything. No one can be sure of the future. And the reason why the PS1 games you bought on PS3 doesn't work on PS4 is because there is no emulator on PS4. From what I understood PSNow titles for PS1, 2 and 3 were part of the subscription (like GP) and not paid extra. Will have to check.

But sure if you want to play the original PS1 games you can only play in PS1, 2 or 3 there is no denying.

For it to be excluded it would need to be there in first place. Was it? Nope. And Sony already answered they focused on the commercial standard for TVs. And even if you could output 4k a 1440p would on PS5 would only accept 1080p.

They made a slot for internal expansion, the fact that the FW isn't ready doesn't show arrogance, show they didn't had the time or you use other reasoning. If you were complaining about not being able to use cold storage that would be another point, which Sony said they are looking at.

Do you even know what arrogance is?

I do have AC Syndicate. But If the game is unplayable or doesn’t receive a patch to fix it I won’t worry. I’m more interested in playing the enhanced exclusives.I would be worried if the console didn’t had any confirmed dates for exclusives between 2020-2022.

Sure, it makes sense from Sony's perspective. From my perspective it doesn't though, and luckily Sony is a giant corporation that can fend for itself without me defending it as well. And uh, I do go back to old games. I mostly play newer games, but I do occasionally play older games as well.

Oh, on PC there's backwards compatibility really far back and then some (i.e. other systems as well). Microsoft, as much as I dislike the company, has also shown commitment to backwards compatibility, unlike Sony (or Nintend for that matter, but that's for another thread). I seriously doubt PS1 emulation for PS3 is programmed in such a way that it couldn't very easily be ported over to PS4 and PS5. Actually at this point the same probably goes for PS2 emulation as well.

As for PS Now, well, there's the subscription part. I have no interest in paying a subscription fee for an inferior experience when I don't have enough time to take advantage of the subscription that much anyway. The same goes for PS+: It's great value when you have enough time but not so much when you don't. For me, it's either committing a very large portion of my gaming time to a subscription or not getting my money's worth, and I can't justify that level of commitment.

Well MS isn't even doing BC, it is doing official emulation =p but yes it is more robust than Sony.

And yes I doubt it would be that hard for Sony to make PS1 and PS2 emulation work on PS5 without issue. With some effort even PS3 should be doable. Still that impacts with their interest on reselling classics, remasters, etc, plus most costumers not caring. So it is something that would net loss instead of profit. At least right now, but who knows. If MS BC keeps getting praised and fans nag Sony enough they may go for it. Otherwise it is something that takes manpower and they are using it for other features.

I don't think the price of one or two full games a year for the sub is expensive and if you play 3 or more games from PS+ you got your ROI (plus the extra discounts if you like digital games) same for PSNow (which can also be subbed montlhy). But I perfectly understand your point of it not being worth your money or time when you balance everything.

While I agree with you about MS. They just had their worst launch in Xbox history releasing no first party titles for their console. I don't think any console maker has done that in the history of gaming. They've been so heavily focused on BC this gen because frankly it's all they have. After Halo Infinite failed they doubled down hard on BC.