PS4 No plans for backward compatibility (right now)

[G0 BIG 0RANGE]

I wasn't even talking about the virtual console games. I was strictly talking about Wii titles. The Wii U plays all of the Wii games, yet out the 100+ million people who bought Wii's, only 10% bought Wii U's.

I never purchased one Wii game in the three years I've owned one I got it for NES and SNES games. Wii games were either too gimmicky or made for a very young audience (except Bayonetta and like Xeno Chronicles).

Of the hundred million Wii owners, I imagine most of them were like my step mom, aunt, and sister or my elementary aged nephews and nieces who had one or the librarian at my school. I don't know a single non-casual gamer who owned a Wii (outside of the very occasional hardcore Mario/Zelda/Nintendo-to-the-bones guy), so it would make sense that they didn't upgrade to a Wii U, considering all of the above I mentioned grew tired of video games or or got older and wanted a PS4 or Xbox One.

Using the Wii to Wii U non-upgrade to show how little backward compatibility matters doesn't float since many of the Wii owner's casually played video games in the first place and would likely just stick to their Wii if they wanted to play (which is exactly what my step mom, aunt, sister, librarian, nieces did - I bought my nephew an Xbox when he got a little older and I bought his Wii from him)

 

[Brave Volunteer]

I never purchased one Wii game in the three years I've owned one I got it for NES and SNES games. Wii games were either too gimmicky or made for a very young audience (except Bayonetta and like Xeno Chronicles).

Of the hundred million Wii owners, I imagine most of them were like my step mom, aunt, and sister or my elementary aged nephews and nieces who had one or the librarian at my school. I don't know a single non-casual gamer who owned a Wii (outside of the very occasional hardcore Mario/Zelda/Nintendo-to-the-bones guy), so it would make sense that they didn't upgrade to a Wii U, considering all of the above I mentioned grew tired of video games or or got older and wanted a PS4 or Xbox One.

Using the Wii to Wii U non-upgrade to show how little backward compatibility matters doesn't float since many of the Wii owner's casually played video games in the first place and would likely just stick to their Wii if they wanted to play (which is exactly what my step mom, aunt, sister, librarian, nieces did - I bought my nephew an Xbox when he got a little older and I bought his Wii from him)

Well I can tell you first hand when I bought my PS3 it had full backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2 games. The only older games I ever played were God of War 2, Resident Evil 4, and Shadow of the Colossus and all of those were played very early in the PS3'S life. Once the AAA games started coming I never had the desire to go back and play any of the old games until they released the Okami HD remaster.

 

[DrRosenRosen]

If I remember correctly, it wasnt full compatility on the PS3 but it was most. That's fair enough.

But, dont forget Sony soon dropped that on new models after the first year.

 

[G0 BIG 0RANGE]

If I remember correctly, it wasnt full compatility on the PS3 but it was most. That's fair enough.

But, dont forget Sony soon dropped that on new models after the first year.

Yeah, PS1 games would work on all PS3s, but PS2 games wouldn't after the first few models because they wanted to drop the heavy price tag.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

If I remember correctly, it wasnt full compatility on the PS3 but it was most. That's fair enough.

But, dont forget Sony soon dropped that on new models after the first year.

Sony launched the PS3 with 2 skus. One was a stripped down model for 499.99 that had no PS2 BC and was missing a few other feature like no memory card readers, fewer USB ports, etc. The other was 599.99 and it had full PS2 BC because it included the PS2 Emotion Engine chipset. Both models had PS1 BC.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Sony launched the PS3 with 2 skus. One was a stripped down model for 499.99 that had no PS2 BC and was missing a few other feature like no memory card readers, fewer USB ports, etc. The other was 599.99 and it had full PS2 BC because it included the PS2 Emotion Engine chipset. Both models had PS1 BC.

This.

My PS3 is the one that had full PS2 BC. I specifically got it because I didn't have room for both a PS2 and a PS3, and I didn't want to have to hook up my PS2 every time I wanted to play some games. Plus at the time I had a pretty sizable PS2 backlog, and a friend at work wanted a PS2 for his kid and I was going to sell it to him pretty cheap.

It's kind of cool owning one of the full BC PS3s, but I can attest that I haven't used it for the actual BC in a very long time. The last PS2 game I played was probably 2010.

 

[BearCat204]

The most appeal for BC is at the very beginning of a new system's life cycle while the platform is still tying to find it's legs and there's the inevitable drought of high quality new titles available. However once the really good new gen titles start rolling, interest in older games starts to fade.

Having said that there ARE a couple of last gen titles on 360 that I hope wind up making the list of games compatible on X1. I'd love to have the Skyrim Legendary collection to play on X1. I also wouldn't mind trying out Alan Wake since I never played it or maybe the Left 4 Dead games.

The only time I even thought about BC in the new consoles were for the first year. After that, I have absolutely to interest.............again though, thats just me

 

[Vol Karma]

The only time I even thought about BC in the new consoles were for the first year. After that, I have absolutely to interest.............again though, thats just me

No, that is me too. I barely have time to play new games (I purchased Witcher 3, and still haven't played it). The only game I could think of going back and playing is CoD4, but than I remember the multiplayer is so hacked right now on XBL (it is insane how hacked it is), its useless to play.