I would rather have it and not need than need it and not have it. Giving your platform as many features and options as possible is always advantageous. Sony really have to re-look at their backward compatibility strategy.

Your going into meltdown over Scorpio, your posts are comical.

Because BC that covers more than one generation is so common, right?

Would it have been a nice feature? Sure! I have tons of PSOne and PS2 games laying around! But is it necessary? Not really, there are a lot of quality titles out there without BC.

The architecture of the PS4 is designed for future intercompatibility, Mongoose.

All you’re gonna have on the Shitpio is Sneak King at 4K. Pathetic.

ReCore is a big disappointment though (for me personally at least), Quantum Break didn’t live up to it’s hype and although it was flawed, I personally enjoyed it a lot. Phantum Dust is not the game we were promised, it even uses the same assets as when it originally launched, I’m curious about pricing on that one.

Sea of Thieves looks like it could be my game of the year for my Xbox, Crackdown 3 looks promising but I’m on a wait and see approach on that one. I’m not too sure how the regular Xbox will handle that game as I’m thinking they developed that with Scorpio in mind.

You forgot Cuphead though, that looks like a lot of fun!

State of Decay 2 depends on what other games on different consoles are launching around that time on wheter I’ll get it or not.

Sony has over 1500 games and that’s without BC or PS2 classics. The Vita has over 1400 games. Number of games means nothing if the games that are out aren’t compelling. I love some of MS’ franchises (Gears = bae) but when comparing to the variety the competitors offer, they fall short.
Horizon is the best experience I’ve had with gaming in a long time.

This next year is looking good though, with Crackdown 3, Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2, Cuphead and more (Forza Motorsport 7 is as good as a given). But let’s be honest, when was the last time we had this kind of variety on our Xbox?

They could have still had PS1 and PS2 games via emulation.

Nah, Sony didn’t have BC built in in the PS4 because of the difficult architecture of the PS3 and to include the cell processor in the PS4 would have meant a big price increase.
That’s also an explanation as to why they don’t follow MS on their BC strategy. It’s too hard to emulate a PS3, it’s not as easy as porting Xbox 360 games to Xbox One.

PS Now only came later.

I’m hoping next gen consoles will include ‘native’ (hardware-based) BC, as the architecture in the PS4/Xbox One isn’t too hard to include (a better version) in the future consoles.

M$ has already announced how many consoles they expect to sell this year (of Scorpio). The answer was not as many as you would think.
I’m of the opinion that they will sell more than they forecast simply because any One/S console user that has any cash flow and 1/2 a brain will dump the old POS for the faster unit just so that they can play the current games without lag or feeling like the game is held back by the system.