They don't want to become a nostalgia company by selling new copies of old titles.
Oh, I am sure they do.
They just want to sell these old titles as a PS4/PS5 remake (like reselling a Blueray movie after DVD after video tape). Backward compatibility lets people play the same title without paying for them again.
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Backwards compatibility is a relatively cheap value-add for console, seems like a wasted opportunity.
Backward compatibility means support for letting play the games you already paid for. Having you re-buy the same titles (which might be an emulation anyway) is much more lucrative.
I'm still on ps3, and never have any plans to buy another one. It was the cheapest Blu-Ray player available at the time, and works ok with my DNLA server. Other than that purchase, I've never given SONY a cent. All the games I have were bought used, for pennies on the dollar.
Consequently, Sony has no reason to give two fucks about you.
Despising Sony is a natural and commonly understood thing to do for any sensible human being, because said company has repeatedly, behaved itself in a despicable manner.
A few examples are:
Secretly infecting your PC with a rootkit when you thought you were just playing a CD-Audio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Allowed PS3 consoles to be used as linux workstations in order to benefit from advantageous import taxes, then remove it from anyone who would want to use it online. https://news [slashdot.org]
They don't want to become a nostalgia company by selling new copies of old titles.
Oh, I am sure they do.
They just want to sell these old titles as a PS4/PS5 remake (like reselling a Blueray movie after DVD after video tape). Backward compatibility lets people play the same title without paying for them again. .
The PS/2 was an IBM PC with MCA bus and the PS2 is the Playstation 2. Nobody but you puts slashes in the names of Sony consoles.
Backwards compatibility is a relatively cheap value-add for console, seems like a wasted opportunity.
Backward compatibility means support for letting play the games you already paid for.
Having you re-buy the same titles (which might be an emulation anyway) is much more lucrative.
I'm still on ps3, and never have any plans to buy another one. It was the cheapest Blu-Ray player available at the time, and works ok with my DNLA server. Other than that purchase, I've never given SONY a cent. All the games I have were bought used, for pennies on the dollar.
Consequently, Sony has no reason to give two fucks about you.
You must be new here.
Despising Sony is a natural and commonly understood thing to do for any sensible human being, because said company has repeatedly, behaved itself in a despicable manner.
A few examples are :
Secretly infecting your PC with a rootkit when you thought you were just playing a CD-Audio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Allowed PS3 consoles to be used as linux workstations in order to benefit from advantageous import taxes, then remove it from anyone who would want to use it online.
https://news [slashdot.org]