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Post by blucey on Aug 8, 2022 10:14:38 GMT
I think one gen of b/c is enough. Like the PS5 just HAD to be able to play PS4. But beyond that unless they make it so that entire generations are playable then I'm not interested. The Series X doesn't let you play every XBLA game. Just the ones they've picked.
Meanwhile PS1 games on the PS++++ service are seriously limited. PS2 is essentially non-existent. PS3 streaming is a bit rubbish.
I'd like to play some PS2 stuff maybe on one of these new handhelds but ultimately you know they won't have aged all that well.
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Post by necronom on Aug 8, 2022 19:33:14 GMT
I've never cared about it. Everything was always a totally new thing when I was getting computers in the 80s, then when it became a selling point for consoles I wasn't ever selling my old hardware, so I could just switch on the PS1 if I wanted to play a PS1 game. Same with PS2, or PS3. I didn't really play the older Playstation games once I got the next one (apart from when I was getting PS3 and PS4 games at the same time through Playstation Plus).
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 8, 2022 19:42:03 GMT
I know I am more inclined to buy something digital on the Xbox than the switch because well all my Wii games are stuck on the Wii a lot of the original Xbox and 360 and Xbox one stuff I grabbed is playable on the X series so it kind of makes me lean more to the Xbox for that sort of thing.
I wouldn't not get a console cause it wasn't backwards compatible but its certainly a nice little tick in the positives box.
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Post by Special Turbo on Aug 9, 2022 8:50:47 GMT
Only 2 of the 10 consoles I own are backwards compatible. I do own a couple PSX games that I play on my PS3. It's really my Wii U that I use the most for backwards compatibility as I still love playing Wii games.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 9, 2022 14:13:49 GMT
Only 2 of the 10 consoles I own are backwards compatible. I do own a couple PSX games that I play on my PS3. It's really my Wii U that I use the most for backwards compatibility as I still love playing Wii games. A lot of people remember the Wii for the shovel ware but there were some awesome games available on it. |
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Post by Special Turbo on Aug 10, 2022 1:10:28 GMT
Only 2 of the 10 consoles I own are backwards compatible. I do own a couple PSX games that I play on my PS3. It's really my Wii U that I use the most for backwards compatibility as I still love playing Wii games. A lot of people remember the Wii for the shovel ware but there were some awesome games available on it. Between Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, New Super Mario Bros Wii and Mario Kart Wii, "Wii mode" on my Wii U still gets quite a bit of use. I definitely use the backwards compatibility way more than I do on my PS3. With that said, backwards compatibility plays no role whatsoever when deciding whether to buy a new video game system. Had Wii U not been backwards compatible, I still would have bought it. Just wouldn't have sold my Wii. Two things move units. New games and console price. I don't think backwards compatibility moves the needle at all on how well a new system sells. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 11:45:35 GMT
Backward compatibility seems good in theory, but the fact is that sometimes it just makes you aware how janky some earlier titles are. Xbox 360 seemed technologically advanced at the time, but going back to them now, they don’t hold up quite as well as I’d expect. I think more than resolution, it’s actually performance that really grates - I’ve got used to 60FPS and higher on the PC and I like the level of fluidity that provides.
Where titles are updated for the new consoles, like the games that have had FPS Boost treatment, it can really be a new lease of life. I’ll even go as far as to say it was worth paying a tenner to upgrade Uncharted 4/Lost Legacy, even though on PC you get used to a performance boost just by upgrading the hardware. The trend, on consoles, of asking consumers to fork out full price (e.g. Judgment) just to have current-gen performance is not one I’m happy about.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 10, 2022 12:25:07 GMT
Backward compatibility seems good in theory, but the fact is that sometimes it just makes you aware how janky some earlier titles are. Xbox 360 seemed technologically advanced at the time, but going back to them now, they don’t hold up quite as well as I’d expect. I think more than resolution, it’s actually performance that really grates - I’ve got used to 60FPS and higher on the PC and I like the level of fluidity that provides. Where titles are updated for the new consoles, like the games that have had FPS Boost treatment, it can really be a new lease of life. I’ll even go as far as to say it was worth paying a tenner to upgrade Uncharted 4/Lost Legacy, even though on PC you get used to a performance boost just by upgrading the hardware. The trend, on consoles, of asking consumers to fork out full price (e.g. Judgment) just to have current-gen performance is not one I’m happy about. Oh I love it when they put the old games up on the store but if you get them on a new machine there various boosts and stuff, that's always awesome to find. |
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Post by megamixer on Aug 10, 2022 17:53:08 GMT
Backward compatibility seems good in theory, but the fact is that sometimes it just makes you aware how janky some earlier titles are. Xbox 360 seemed technologically advanced at the time, but going back to them now, they don’t hold up quite as well as I’d expect. I think more than resolution, it’s actually performance that really grates - I’ve got used to 60FPS and higher on the PC and I like the level of fluidity that provides. Where titles are updated for the new consoles, like the games that have had FPS Boost treatment, it can really be a new lease of life. I’ll even go as far as to say it was worth paying a tenner to upgrade Uncharted 4/Lost Legacy, even though on PC you get used to a performance boost just by upgrading the hardware. The trend, on consoles, of asking consumers to fork out full price (e.g. Judgment) just to have current-gen performance is not one I’m happy about. I feel that this sort of thing is less acceptable from the 360/PS3 era onwards...maybe even the PS2/GC/Xbox era. Games since then have pretty much been the same concept-wise so something from 360 could well look/feel awful compared to a brand-new Series X title, due to sheer performance issues.
I've always thought this since the leaps between 8bit > 16bit > 32bit were pretty huge (especially 16 > 32) so the games were completely different. You wouldn't view a 2D SNES game as being outdated and crap compared to a 3D PS1 game for example - not from a performance perspective anyway as games were completely different.
Now, FPS's, racers, sports games etc. are pretty much the same construct as they have been for the last 20 years so stuff from earlier on seems to date far worse in that way.
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Post by sega2006 on Aug 10, 2022 20:21:50 GMT
I do prefer it if I can get it, more out of space than anything but that being said I've not bought anything new console wise for several years now.
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Post by learnedrobb on Aug 11, 2022 20:06:55 GMT
It's nice to have, but it isn't a deal breaker.
Being able to play PS4 games on my PS5 is convenient, but if I couldn't do it, I wouldn't be upset. Frankly, I'm more upset they removed the ability to watch 3D movies on the PSVR headset.
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Its just some interesting potential opportunities for AI and automation to help and free humans in the future, rather than enslave us. We need General Zod to implement it.