U still all over the place fam. I don’t know what backwards compatibility had to do with the conversation at all until u brought it up. MY issue is u aren’t consistent. I’m all for competition as well. But like I said before. U seem to only point out PlayStation shyt. And give everyone else passes for doing the same shyt. It’s weird. And like I said. I love that Xbox is backwards compatible. But they aren’t even fully backwards compatible till this day. And u forgot that Sony literally put a whole PS2 inside the PS3 initially. shyt had FULL BC for both PS2 and PS1 games. It had a Blu Ray player that at the time stand-alone costed more than that console itself. Despite it being one of the best Blu Ray players on the market at the time. What did people do? bytch and complain about the price of the console even tho Sony was taking a HUGE loss every console sold. People cared about the price more than BC so they eventually removed PS2 BC all together to save on costs. No one gave a fukk the whole rest of the 360/PS3 gen. So Sony didn’t. The PS4/Xbox One era comes in and since Xbox started taking L’s they implemented all that BC shyt and emphasized it like crazy until people started criticizing Sony for not doing. Not really factoring in that both PS2 and PS3 were VERY hard to emulate even till this day on powerful gaming PC’s it ain’t perfect especially PS3. The PS4 wasn’t powerful enough to just drop backwards compatibility on the console and have it run flawlessly. They would’ve had to invest and specially going game for game to optimize to make the shyt work correctly. There’s literal PS2’s out there that don’t run every PS2 game. Bottom line is every Sony console was completely backwards compatible up until the PS4.
What does the PS3 for a period being backwards compatible have to do with the PS5? I'm not discussing history I'm talking about the reality we have right now.
When PS+ introduced free games with a subscription Xbox matched with Games with Gold.
That's how it used to be. One company did something and the other matched. Now? One company does something and the other says fukk you pay me or we don't care about that.
You out here giving history lessons about PS3 backwards compatibility like that has anything to do with PS4 and PS5. Somehow Microsoft got PowerPC backwards compatibility to work on x86 architecture on the Xbox One and Series so naw that doesn't fly.
Nobody cares? No people care which is why there are rumblings of Sony revisiting it now as a service. People wanted it but Sony saw it as not worthwhile until they could sell it. I'm still holding out hope they come out and announce all previous generations of PlayStation working on PS5.
I talk about Sony because that's who I game with. To be honest Microsoft is more useful to me as a company to push Sony forward right now than for any game they make. Microsoft created Xbox Live and Sony responded with PSN. Microsoft put effort into the console OS and apps and Sony matched. Microsoft standardized stuff like console ports, storage, and wireless controllers and Sony responded.
