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Xbox reaction to PS Classic: "Play 500+ Classic titles on your Xbox One today ... Totally for free"
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Lol so many haters in this threads... Id be upset as well if MS were charging me to play the games i already own.
Does this mean that the entire back catalogue of Playstation is "free" because I own a PS3 and PS2?
Right. It's a conspiracy. In a simple tweet. Because you say so. lol
And I never once mentioned any praise at all for MS or their BC. You are showing your hand.
Well they're not wrong.
Lord knows why Sony and Nintendo don't just flood the market with Classic Playstation and Nintendo games, Id say cos money, but theyre trickling old games so slowly and x developer may, probably maybe re-release a game when we're all ancient mummies in the year 2300
Lord knows why Sony and Nintendo don't just flood the market with Classic Playstation and Nintendo games, Id say cos money, but theyre trickling old games so slowly and x developer may, probably maybe re-release a game when we're all ancient mummies in the year 2300
I've been really impressed at how well PSX performs on the B+. I actually did full playthroughs of Tekken 3 (earned all unlocks) and Um Jammer Lammy just this past weekend, and put a couple hours each into Wipeout XL and Doom. There's no question a little box like this (be it the PS Classic or a Pi) has tons of draw as a standalone.
Do you have access to get the PSP PS1 bios? It runs even better.
BC will only be a good thing to some people until Sony does it on the PS5.
and they'll shill for it if they force us to rebuy games lmao
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I don't understand why MS is so insecure when it comes to PS. Don't recall Sony issuing statements on every move MS makes.
Maybe if MS engineered better hardware at a affordable price and invested in their first party companies they bought out instead of sinking them, they wouldn't feel the need to defend themselves all the time.
Maybe if MS engineered better hardware at a affordable price and invested in their first party companies they bought out instead of sinking them, they wouldn't feel the need to defend themselves all the time.
And they gave it away for free to everyone who watched last years e3 on Mixer lol. But techinacally you had to own a device to watch Mixer on, so I guess it wasnt really free.
Worst thing about this tweet, is it means we won't get a little Xbox, with a pair of massive Dukes.
where are you getting emulated games for free?
Xbox's backwards compatibility is great, but god what a stupid statement to make. It's not free if you have to buy the game first.
Avg Joe sees "for free" and assumes it means exactly what it says, free, as in not requiring you to pay for it. Not that it means free only if you've already paid money for said game the past or have the physical disc still, which is jumping to a conclusion that they'd have no context or reason to know about if they aren't a gamer or know about the xbox and BC.
Crap, no. I made a dump from a standard PSX system for myself years back when someone in my circle ended up with the carrier cable. That's what I've been using in general when I emulate. The process was really cool to do, but I'm not familiar with how it would work from a PSP. Thanks for the heads up!
Cause a lot of people got angry due to it trying to throw shade at the Playstation brand and PS1 mini
You know, since the whole used game thing, I don't Sony has "taunted" MS since then. However, ever since BC for MS, they've been doing it constantly.
Common sense says you'd have to own the games to be able to play them.
The mental gymnastics in this thread are on the people saying there's anything wrong with the tweet. It's just Microsoft promoting one of their best features.
Yeah I mean that whole video with Shu and Boyes was mildly funny at the time but that was like 5 years ago, and they really haven't taken jabs since, that I can recall at least.
I guess ive always seen them as being more subtle and discrete about it but this so clearly a direct response to their competitor. its kinda sad tbh.
Because console warriors all have to post their identical take that involves them somehow forgetting what backwards compatibility is because their console of choice doesn't have it.
It's a harmless tweet, but it's also apples and oranges. Microsoft haven't one-upped Sony here. Their catalogue doesn't go back this far and a classic console reissue has a different market and purpose to backwards compatibility.
Well, they emulated the Wii. So in a way you weren't paying cause it was an official emulator.
The problem is that Nintendo keeps making new account systems, and they probably put a pay wall in place to try and get something back out of developing a transfer system.
Should have just gone with 1 static Nintendo account by now (like the Nintendo ID on their website).
Hello, this is the Illuminati and this is a post only you, saenima, can read.
Please stop revealing our secrets to the general population.
Thanks.
I don't think anyone expects otherwise? Most of the thread is about the wording MS used and the importance of BC to particular users. I like BC but don't own an XB1. I own a PS4 and wish it had BC. Neither of those statements have anything to do with how I think the PS Classic will sell. Spoiler alert: It's going to sell out several times and go on to top the NPD chart.
It's blatant false advertising. Conflating a miniature retro collectable pre loaded with 20 classic games for 100 dollars to simple backwards compatibility is.....disingenuous at best. Promote your feature but don't pretend to offer 'free' games lol
Because people actually believe billion dollar corporations that pump out their favorite console are their BFFs.
Yep, would also be a really fun way of doing it. But if I ever got one of these mini consoles, it'd be for shelf decoration, not really ever playing on. Why I'd never actually get one.
My hand? Oh right, because I'm a top secret console warrior. Sure thing.
But seeing as we're talking about things never mentioned, I never used the word 'conspiracy' nor intimated as such but, you know, enjoy your snark.
Promoting a feature your product already has when a competitor comes up with their own implementation isnt console wars, its basic marketing. Come on.
Yeah that's the way it goes but how bad it gets is hardly consistent. You will see the red mod edit in the OP more often in threads focused on Xbox or Nintendo topics. Look at this thread and the PS classic announcement thread as examples. There is not a single troll comment in the first page of the PS classic announcement but the first page of this thread, a thread over an innocent silly tweet, is fucking embarrassing. I would prefer every thread to go like the classic thread, but we see Xbox and Nintendo threads go to shit like we see here. So yeah, every camp has a number of fanboys, but the amount of members and how destructive they tend to be is not the same at all.
I do agree that crapgamer is a cancer to gaming too. Can't stand him but there are plenty that are as bad as him on all sides. I wouldn't call Tim Dog toxic though. Biased? Hell yeah, but he's no worse than some of the other characters I don't agree with.
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MS just salty that Sony refuses to allow them to siphon off their online userbase by allowing crossplay with them. Had nothing to say to Nintendo about BC when they were promoting NES classic but as soon as Sony does their own classic console they got shit to say...pathetic.
I expected some defensive posts but this is a bit much. Glad people can play the games they already bought.
I love BC. That's great. But I am being completely honest in saying that that is NOT what I thought this was about when I read the headline.
I get what they're doing, but it's a kind of misleading thing to say. I can't play 500 Xbox games for free. Heck, I only have like three or four Xbox games still, and I don't even know if they're compatible with XB1.
I got excited when I read the tweet. They should have said "Play 500+ of your Xbox and Xbox 360 games on the XB1 at no extra cost!"
I get what they're doing, but it's a kind of misleading thing to say. I can't play 500 Xbox games for free. Heck, I only have like three or four Xbox games still, and I don't even know if they're compatible with XB1.
I got excited when I read the tweet. They should have said "Play 500+ of your Xbox and Xbox 360 games on the XB1 at no extra cost!"
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