Comments on: PlayStation 4 Won’t Have Backwards Compatibility, “Happy With Our Approach”

By: Orion Wolf

Orion Wolf — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:28:00 +0000

In reply to Ziio.

“360 and One are just basic pc architecture”

360 is an IBM PowerPC, the x1 is an AMD x86, both were custom made, and there is nothing “basic PC architecture” about either of them. BC is a software thing yes, but emulation is not just dependent on the software. 360 emulation attempts have been going on for 8 years now and the PC needed to run even Wii games is anything, but weak in comparison with the Wii, let alone the 360 and of course even more so for the ps3. One thing is running games natively, but (good) emulation is another
matter entirely.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/

“Sony is right though, backward compatibility is a niche functionality”

And yet they came up with PS Now which is anything, but a small or “niche” investment (Gaikai and Onlive patents) and that’s besides the hype surrounding the service, before and after launch, but yeah now no one seems to care anymore.

The same will be true for the xbox one BC, but the premises are completely different.

By: Ziio

Ziio — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:02:00 +0000

Even if they wanted to Sony can’t make the PS4 backward compatible, the system architecture is too different. The odd architecture on the PS3 is why many developers decided not to port to the system, it was just too much work. To make it work they would have to emulate the PS3 system internally and PS4 just doesn’t have that kind of power. XBone could have been backward compatible on day one, as both the 360 and One are just basic pc architecture, the game would have to be tweaked to work correctly, but it would be a software issue. Sony is right though, backward compatibility is a niche functionality, PS2 and PS3 both had it baked in, yet it was rarely used as newer games were just better on the newer systems.

By: You Are Flat Out Wrong

You Are Flat Out Wrong — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:23:00 +0000

In reply to Crapgamer.

Who wants to play a bunch of old games without improvements?

Console shills, that’s who.

Both Sony shills and MS shills are morons

By: Brenden Donaldson

Brenden Donaldson — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:05:00 +0000

In reply to darqseptember. he has a point..xbox has been saying just wait and see what we can do guys just wait and see...is this is? Its nice but worth two years? Meh

By: LifeOnMars

LifeOnMars — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:26:00 +0000

I don’t care much for backward compatibility, I hardly use my PS3 these days.I can’t envisage the Xbox 360 owners who jumped ship to PS4 would make much use of it either. Backward compatibility is needed more use for XBONE users , now they can finally bin their RROD 360’s once and for all.

By: Starman

Starman — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:37:00 +0000

In reply to darqseptember. Calm down , take the dik out of ur mouth .. now take a deep breath before you have an Aneurysm ..

By: darqseptember

darqseptember — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:27:00 +0000

In reply to Starman.

Are people still going on about 4k on the Xbox 1. Tell me , misterxmpedia has been telling us all about the ‘hidden’ power of the Xbox 1 for the last TWO years. According to him , this years E3 was going to amazing because Microsoft was going to turn all this power on and well see the much talked about but never seen Forza running at 4K at 60FPS. Did we see that ? Did we see ANY of this so-called ‘hidden’ power ? No we didn’t. NOT.A.SINGLE.THING.
Hmm , i wonder why that is ?

By: crizz1066

crizz1066 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:55:00 +0000

Never really used it on ps3, plus got Ps3 anyway . Plenty of games on ps4 to keep me busy, will be able to stream games soon too. Which fits in with the movie streaming which is coming

By: Starman

Starman — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:05:00 +0000

“HAPPY WITH OUR APPROACH” No , your system can’t handle it .. it isn’t built like that .. and what are you’ll going to say when ‘WARGAMES’ studio releases ‘WORLD OF TANKS’ with textures in 4k on the xb1 , as they said on the XBLI pannel the other day … lol so much for the 50% more power .. lol

By: d0x360

d0x360 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:24:00 +0000

In reply to Ian Williams. Problem is Sony is genuinely near bankruptcy. They are selling assets left and right and if ps4 doesn't make big money they are screwed...and it isn't making big money. Game sales on the platform fall month after month while Xbox game sales keep rising.