About PS5's Backwards Compatibility...

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5 years ago

PS is looking towards new games not the past. Still getting PS5.

5 years ago

@Vaze23 Doing one doesn't mean you can't do the other. At this point Sony not properly doing backwards compatibility is an insanely silly idea, even just from marketing perspective.

IcarusAiden

5 years ago

oh no conner was kidnapped and taken to a different room!

Reitanclan

5 years ago

I think Sony can see that companies are doing well re-establishing there old titles. My favourite case is scenarios like Mafia II where the game is more buggy than it was *AHEM* is on the PS3.

XelcarOG

5 years ago

Alanah nailed that Aussie accent.

Hammlet

5 years ago

@XelcarOriginal Almost like she was born and raised there

Stevonicus

5 years ago

What!? You mean I won't be able to play my Atari games on the PS5? This won't stand.

Hammlet

5 years ago

Honestly I don't care about backwards compatibility at all. I owned every Xbox so far, and I played 360 games on my One maybe a handful of times, and none of the OG Xbox games

Astarties

5 years ago

I don't understand why people give a shit about this? Sony doesn't confiscate your old consoles when you buy a new one.

SteelHooves

5 years ago

@Astarties No, but when's the last time you saw a TV with component in? Plus, old hardware is unreliable. My ps3 overheats after a half hour, and could die any minute, having new hardware that plays old software is a godsend. But, there's no money in old software, no matter how much people want it.

Astarties

5 years ago

@SteelHooves Yeah, but you're in the minority there. Most people don't go back and play previous gen games once we're a couple years into a new generation. And the ones that would be popular for that got remastered versions or got released on Steam anyway. Once all the playstation final fantasy games got released on steam and Switch (remastered or otherwise) and the Jak and Daxter series, Uncharted series, and TLoU got remastered for the PS4, I could basically have just thrown out all the previous PlayStations. I haven't turned on my PS3 in probably 4 years and my PS2 has been packed in a box since I moved 10 years ago (which was also 3 houses ago). At this point, the only thing that would convince me to power up one of my older plastations would be the Metal Gear Solid games.

SteelHooves

5 years ago

The biggest problem is that PS3's don't work very well, and the longer we go without being able to play those games reliably, the less reliable those consoles will become. I have a ps3 model that can play ps2 games, which is amazing, but it overheats like crazy, and I can't find anyone who can fix it, so I have no way to play my classics.

TheDatelesstuba

5 years ago

Literally the only reason I would get a PS5 over an Xbox would be Backwards Compatibility, i.e. to catch up on all of the exclusive games I missed.

chris3playp

5 years ago

i think i watched alanah say cranch bandicant like 10 times. im good.

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