This is where I'm at. I get the point that BC isn't a profitable money-maker for Sony, or at least profitable enough to make the investment in it worth it. It's repeated ad-nauseum on here whenever BC gets brought up in any thread. And I always come back to - why should a single person care if it's profitable for Sony when their competitor does it? That shouldn't deter folks from loudly calling on Sony to get their shit together in this regard.
I mean, yes, PC have been able to play these games at 60fps for ages.
There will always be a balance between what is profitable and what the consumer desires. Sony also discontinued the 20GB model of the PS3 before the 60GB model even though it was $100 cheaper. Consumer saw a larger hard drive and built in wi-fi as the deciding factor. Even this gen we have a $399 PS5 that is harder to find than the $499 disk drive. One could easily make the argument there is more demand for the $499 model but we will never know if Sony is purposely creating less because they make more money on the disk version?
Why did they invest in PS4 BC then? What Ryan says and what he does are two different things.
So does that mean these enhanced games will benefit from better input latency or not?
Apples and Oranges with your comparison. The bottom line is that the PS5 will set the world on fire without more/better backwards compatibility. The consumer won't choose not to buy the console due to the lack of the feature. What's to motivate Sony in improving the situation other than goodwill?
Because people care about their digital libraries but don't care about PS1,2,3 compatibility. You can't compare PS4 compatibility with previous generations.
He said previous gen and PS4 is a previous gen console. I agree with you about the digital library.
Maybe not, but its initiatives like these that solidify my choice to purchase any game I want to play for Xbox instead of PlayStation. I'm trusting MS with my library in much greater degree than I do Nintendo or Sony.
What's stopping people from demanding/making a campaign on the level of No DRM 2013 then? Or people dropping PlayStation and going to Xbox? Switch sells gangbusters and had fuck all for Backwards compatibility
No it will not. Mechanics and quality of life is all different. There's not enough people motivated to buy a new platform to play years old games if you take out nostalgia.
Since the game code doesn't change, this actually seems like the more logical thing to happen with the hindsight of knowing that's what happened.
In theory yes but if you watch the interview it's dependent on the game engine. They said they found some games that worked but had animations that ran at double frame rate as well and broke the game.
Probably PR and the much lower cost of BC development for PS4 only. Ever since 2015, backwards compatibility was a huge talking point for the Xbox One, and people were clamoring for a similar program on PS4. It was incredibly obvious that the next Xbox would also have comprehensive BC, and Sony knew that if they didn't have PS4 support on the PS5 it would be a PR nightmare (likely not as much as $599 or Xbox One DRM, but still relatively big) and considering the PS4 Pro could run PS4 games and the PS5 is using AMD CPU/GPU like the PS4, it would be a lot easier to get full PS4 support on PS5 than developing emulators for their older systems and testing several games.
Similar architectures I guess? I don't know. You'd have to ask them tbh. Ps2 had psx BC. ps3 is such a monstrosity that it looks like they want to pretend it never happened.
Then there isn't enough demand for Sony to throw money at it. That's the whole thing.
That's all it really is. You pay for Nintendo Online and guess what they give you? Old games for free. What games are on PS Now? Old games. So this spin that consumers don't care is rather odd.
But they do, as long as they get something in return.
