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On a scale of 0 to 10, how importantly do you rate backward compatibility?

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Anarchist420

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I think it should be available at all costs, although I prefer it to be done through emulation. I wouldn't expect Sony's next GPU to be able to emulate the Cell very well, so they may have to build on the Cell which would really suck. Building on the Cell would suck because then that would take away resources from the GPU they'd develop or use.

Backwards compatibility is probably going to become mandatory after this current generation.

When I played mostly consoles, I had to have almost every single one of them (as well as several reviisons of each trying to get the best one), and that was a PITA because of all the cords, all the room they took up and making sure the revision was right for consoles I didn't already have (video encoder, circuitry quality, etc). Also, if I wasn't satisfied with Kega Fusion, then I'd have to pay to have a Genesis modded.

Nintendo should really make a Wii revision with an s/pdif transmitter and a TMDS with scaler in the GPU die.
 
9 for me. I would like to keep my current gen games, with out worrying about failed hardware that won't be supported or available in the future.
 
Dont really care that much for it now. I rarely go back and play any of my old games on for xbox. I think the "oldest" game I played recently was R6 Vegas 2
 
-10

easily the most overrated feature in any console generation. good on paper, but overrated in actual useage.
 
1

There might be one very odd instance where I'd want to revisit an old game, but there's so many good cutting edge games coming out all the time. Why would I want to waste my time with old stuff? I can't even come close to keeping up with new games...

Plus I have the old consoles. Nothings stopping me from still using them.
 
I am pretty much guaranteed to still have the older system somewhere anyway. It's mostly a non-issue for me.
 
not a deal breaker, but it's handy when you get that urge to fire up something outdated. Also then you don't have to go find and hook up the past console.
 
gorcorps said:
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There might be one very odd instance where I'd want to revisit an old game, but there's so many good cutting edge games coming out all the time. Why would I want to waste my time with old stuff? I can't even come close to keeping up with new games...

Plus I have the old consoles. Nothings stopping me from still using them.
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This - I have a launch PS3, and have played maybe a couple of PS2 games on it, but I couldn't tell you what they are 🙂
 
I have zero interest in playing old assed games, no matter how good they were. There's always amazing games on each new console, and I hardly have enough time to play 10% of those, so to worry about previous gen games is silly.
Not paying $500 for a new console and then popping in a game I played 5 years ago.

Kinda like the Linux on PS3 thing. Oops, did I say that out loud?
 
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purbeast0 said:
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easily the most overrated feature in any console generation. good on paper, but overrated in actual useage.
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This. I imagine most people that have bitched about the various lack of backward compatibility on current consoles never would have taken advantage of it given the ability.
 
I'd say about a 7. When my Xbox died, I really liked that I could still play the odd dozen titles I still had on my Xbox 360 instead. Sometimes I just get an itch to play something that did not come out this generation. I find it irksome that you've got companies like Sony that take away the already working backwards comparability through emulation they had going on the PS3 just because they figured it'd help in re-selling classics digitally. These days I hear they want to charge people again for games people have already paid for just to get their PSP games transferred to their PSP2 >.>
 
Sophitia said:
I find it irksome that you've got companies like Sony that take away the already working backwards comparability through emulation they had going on the PS3 just because they figured it'd help in re-selling classics digitally.
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Not quite right, only the PS1 BC was done in software, and it is still there. The launch PS3 used 2 hardware chips from the PS2 slim, and the 80 GB with lesser compatibility still used 1 of the PS2 slim chips.

Losing access to the full PS2 library was a big deal, because there were so many good games made for it. The PS2 Ratchet & Clank games still look pretty good on my 50" 1080P DLP set, and so do some JRPGs like Xenosaga and Persona 3 - 4. Katamari doesn't need 1080P to be fun.

Yes, I still have my PS2 Slim, but I'd rather not have a living room filled up with different old consoles, and have 20 connections to my receiver.

So: 8 for me.
 
I'd go 8-9. I have a substantial investment in Rock Band DLC now, and I have no interest in losing access to all of it. Of course, controller compatibility is another issue entirely, we'll have to see how that goes.
 
10
I have way to many games for older systems and when I'm now playing the new ones I will play the old ones.
 
I wouldn't skip a console because of it, but I think it does increase it's value to me. I like the PS2 and PS3 implementations that take advantage of the increased processing power to make old games look at least slightly better as well.

I keep my old consoles but unfortunately I don't exactly have unlimited space for them, so when I bought a used PS3 earlier this year I made sure to find a hardware BC version. Though I could probably emulate most of the titles I'd actually want, I like not having to fuss with it and still being able to use my PC as a PC while playing my consoles.
 
It's a feature that's important when the console launches as there aren't as many titles for it, but as time goes by the need for it drops substantially
 
Eh, 3. I would love backwards compatibility if it led to improved performance, but it never does. Considering the difference in power, playing Halo 2 on Xbox 360 should lead to flawless framerates, but instead it's exactly the same as it was on the original Xbox. That fact alone majorly kills a lot of its value to me.
 
I agree with others that this feature is vastly overrated. I'd rather they focus on other things than worry about making old games work which results in increased costs to people who don't care for the feature.

99.9% of the people that want to play old games, already have the old consoles.
 
7

I'd like to play my PSN games on the PS4, but to a lesser extent like to play PS3 disc games on it. They are not going to emulate a Cell with a GPU. They are either going to have a Cell variant or just drop BC. I suspect a revision to the Cell with a better PPU and more SPUs will be the CPU. All their PS3 tools, expertise, etc. will carry over to the next gen.
 
5. I'd like to condense down to one system which will make it easier to play some of my older games I really like(d) because sometimes setting the old one up is a pain or a space user. But, it wont make me not buy the system either.
 
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