"Why would anybody play this?"Sony's Jim Ryan comment on backwards compatibility

[Fatboi1]

Another concern occasionally raised by PlayStation devotees involves the company's once-ubiquitous PlayStation 2. While Sony has in recent years devoted resources to bringing a handful of popular older titles to the PlayStation 4, the better part of that library is lost to time. For now, it seems that's where it'll remain. "When we've dabbled with backwards compatibility, I can say it is one of those features that is much requested, but not actually used much," says Ryan. "That, and I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games, and the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?"

Everything Sony Told Us About the Future of PlayStation

 

[B86]

This is how I feel about all that BC/Remastered bullshyt. I played the old shyt already so why would I want to play it again?

 

[levitate]

Same reasons why I wanted an NES Classic.

Great games and an opportunity to relive my childhood.

Doesn't take a Yale Marketing MBA to figure that out.

 

[daze23]

Gran Turismo is a bad example, because it's basically iterations of the same game, with better graphics, more cars, more tracks, etc. there's not a lot of incentive to play older versions of the game (but I'm sure people do prefer certain versions for whatever personal reason(s))

 

[NoMorePie]

I would love to play Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec again, actually...I remember being afraid to race against the Penzoil haha

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

This is Bullshyt, the success of cod on 360 has proved this isn't true.


If PS5 isn't compatible with ps4 and all those ps2 classics etc I'm Going to be annoyed.

 

[Rayzah]

It's true for most but some people want to be able to play their old games

 

[B86]

Same reasons why I wanted an NES Classic.

Great games and an opportunity to relive my childhood.

Doesn't take a Yale Marketing MBA to figure that out.

Guess it takes a Yale Marketing MBA to tell you emulators have been around for like 15 years...they obviously marketed the hell out of that NES Classic to you for you to spend money on something that's been free for almost 2 decades...

 

[Leasy]

They just talking shyt because they can't implement the ability in their last two systems. There are a ton of games people haven't played that they will probably play on a newer system years later.

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

He basically ethered Sony's own games

 

[GreenGrass]

so much for the retro movement

 

[Red Shield]

Gran Turismo is a bad example, because it's basically iterations of the same game, with better graphics, more cars, more tracks, etc. there's not a lot of incentive to play older versions of the game (but I'm sure people do prefer certain versions for whatever personal reason(s))

Yea it's one thing to have iterations of the same game..

but games like Haunting Ground, SMT, Rule of Rose...

the shyt I can only play on ps2. Yea I want bc or a pc emulation



Got a bunch of games that can only be played on older consoles..

 

[Lord Bison]

I want to play Twisted Metal 2 and I have to hook up my PS3 just to play it. You mean to tell me the PS3 can play 3 generations of PlayStation but the PS4 can't?

 

[Methodical]

What if he was at us and giving us the hints that they will announce this E3 that PS4 gonna have BC?

 

[ORDER_66]

Partially it's true if the game graphically looks garbage why would you play it now?! if anything they could have gotten the games remastered and put out on a special collectors disc like namco did for their games... but I guess he thought it wasnt worth the money...

Every game I've played on my old systems I've played and beaten and forgotten... there's something about certain games that once their beaten you dont need to play them again...