I think probably many of you have seen than in recent years Nintendo has recieved a lot of criticism for the handling of their first party legacy content on the Switch, because in previous console thay have the virtual console line that allowed players to buy games from old consoles, while now on the Switch they only have a service for NES and SNES games, not considering any of the other consoles so far. Virtual Console wasn´t perfect, but because of that the idea was to made it better, not worse, and for that reason as I said there have been multiple articles or Youtube videos with thousands of views about this and overall people have just not stopped complaining about this
However, if you look at Sony, I think they have been just as bad as Nintendo in that sense in recent years, since they had on PS3,PSP and Vita the PS1 classics line of games, that was basically a Virtual Console but for PS1 games, and on PS3 thay also had a line of PS2 classics, as well as many remastered collection of games of this console; it wasn't perfect since plenty of games owned by Sony from these consoles were not present, like Lomax, and the distribution between regions was kind of a mess, but still, it was a solid form of getting these classics games legally. However now on PS4 the PS1 classic line of games didn't return, at all, so to play games on this console on PS4 you have to rely on collections or individual releases, something that Sony has barely done at all, and then you have the PS2 classics that while did return on PS4, they are overall far inferior, with far less games available, so overall for PS4 Sony has done a very bad job with their legacy content next to what they did before, just like Nintendo on the Switch, and don't get me started witht he emarassment that was the PS1 Mini
The thing is, while Nintendo fans have been super critical about Nintendo's handling of their legacy content, most PS Fans have not cared at all about this, the complains about the lack of PS1 classics or better PS2 clascis, or even getting PSP games on PS4 has been almost non existent, most PS fans don't care. Why is this? I know Sony doesn't have the legacy that Nintendo has but they have done dozens of fantastic games, dozens of fantastic games you have to own original hardware or still have your PS3, PSP or Vita if you want to play them now, not to mention Sony also has some very interesting games that were released only in Japan and again no one seem to care unlike Nintendo fans that still are complaining about thigs like Mother 3 or the classic FE games, and all of that is without mentioning they have never done anything with the games they own that were made before Playstation, like Sony Imagesoft or Psygnosis titles
I honestly think Playstation fans should care more about Sony's classic content, I think this is giving a lot of people the image that Sony doesn't have good classic games and most of the good stuff for PS1 or 2 were entirely third party, with is BS honestly
Edit: and to be more clear, it's not that no Playstation fan cares about Sony's legacy content, is more that is seems the vast majority doesn't care and that's why the complains for the lack of PS1 classics on PS4 have been only distant voices that are not worth listening for Sony
However, if you look at Sony, I think they have been just as bad as Nintendo in that sense in recent years, since they had on PS3,PSP and Vita the PS1 classics line of games, that was basically a Virtual Console but for PS1 games, and on PS3 thay also had a line of PS2 classics, as well as many remastered collection of games of this console; it wasn't perfect since plenty of games owned by Sony from these consoles were not present, like Lomax, and the distribution between regions was kind of a mess, but still, it was a solid form of getting these classics games legally. However now on PS4 the PS1 classic line of games didn't return, at all, so to play games on this console on PS4 you have to rely on collections or individual releases, something that Sony has barely done at all, and then you have the PS2 classics that while did return on PS4, they are overall far inferior, with far less games available, so overall for PS4 Sony has done a very bad job with their legacy content next to what they did before, just like Nintendo on the Switch, and don't get me started witht he emarassment that was the PS1 Mini
The thing is, while Nintendo fans have been super critical about Nintendo's handling of their legacy content, most PS Fans have not cared at all about this, the complains about the lack of PS1 classics or better PS2 clascis, or even getting PSP games on PS4 has been almost non existent, most PS fans don't care. Why is this? I know Sony doesn't have the legacy that Nintendo has but they have done dozens of fantastic games, dozens of fantastic games you have to own original hardware or still have your PS3, PSP or Vita if you want to play them now, not to mention Sony also has some very interesting games that were released only in Japan and again no one seem to care unlike Nintendo fans that still are complaining about thigs like Mother 3 or the classic FE games, and all of that is without mentioning they have never done anything with the games they own that were made before Playstation, like Sony Imagesoft or Psygnosis titles
I honestly think Playstation fans should care more about Sony's classic content, I think this is giving a lot of people the image that Sony doesn't have good classic games and most of the good stuff for PS1 or 2 were entirely third party, with is BS honestly
Edit: and to be more clear, it's not that no Playstation fan cares about Sony's legacy content, is more that is seems the vast majority doesn't care and that's why the complains for the lack of PS1 classics on PS4 have been only distant voices that are not worth listening for Sony
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