Next Next-Gen Rumors - Intel gets PS4 GPU, AMD/ATI gets MS and Nintendo

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Originally posted by: ducci
Neither PS3 nor 360 have "given up" on backwards compatibility.

This is true. The 360 is BC with about 50% of Xbox games. The PS3, as it is being made right now, is compatible with a very high number (85%?) of PS1 games.

They've just gone to a very primitive version of their new business model - digitally distributing "classic" games. It's very similar to the Wii and the virtual console.

I am certain the next generation of consoles will have a more robust system of downloading games for previous systems. However, their disc-based counterparts will remain proprietary to the consoles they were released on.

This part doesn't make any sense unless you're into conspiracy theories. They're going to need the same hardware and/or emulator software to run those "classic games", and it's not like it's technically any harder to run them off disc than it is off the hard drive. The only possible way it could happen naturally is if they wrote _VERY_ limited software emulators, but I doubt that would be worth the return on investment.