@Dezzy That's true, but the problem with that approach is that licensing becomes an issue, because you're essentially distributing those games again. And you're dependent on an online connection. But especially the former will be an issue for older PS1 and PS2 games. Xbox has an BC-like service in place, but how many of the OG Xbox games are playable through that service? 30 or 40 at most? So it's there, but that's a fraction of the 1000 games available on OG Xbox.
@Gamer83 How does PlayStation Now streaming work for you? It was always a bit inconsistent for me so I was limited to downloading stuff on the service, while the tempting promise of streaming PS2 and 3 games didn’t work out.
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Unfortunately can't give you an answer about PS Now because I've never used it. I'm not big on the idea of streaming games, that's also why (among other reasons) I haven't even considered investing in Stadia.
Yeah in principle that might have bugged me, but then when I came to think of what OG Xbox games I actually wanted to play, and I could only think of about 6 games, which were all supported, so it didn't bug me at all.
I think out of all the backcompat stuff on the Xbone I've wanted to play, only 1 game wasn't supported. They do a great job of covering the most popular stuff. It's only a problem if you have really unorthodox tastes.
@Dezzy Yeah, but at the same time, I think you can find plenty of working discs of your favourite games if you want. I've only ever bought one used game that was unplayable, and I could trade it in for another. I just think the concept of having everything compatible from the get-go is a lot more promising than hoping for Sony to add more games.
There was a new "Making Of" video for FF7. Nothing special, just the devs saying things we mostly already knew. Some new footage from it though. That shot of Cloud under the plate looks so cool. You didn't get views like that with the static backgrounds of the original.
Honestly most of those kinds of presentations are largely meaningless to me. And I'm a programmer. They must be even more meaningless to other people.
The only genuinely interesting thing about the new consoles is hardware-based ray tracing. Pretty much everything else so far is just "the same as before but a bit faster".
I'm hoping Sony goes more into detail about backwards compatibility.
Same. That's the make-or-break thing for me, honestly. If they try to make us rebuy all our games again, forget about it. I'll just wait this gen out, or maybe grab an Xbox One X, if Microsoft really has gotten their act together.
I'll be very upset if Sony had the gall to deny BC again when Microsoft has been expanding theirs. Though I'm optimistic that we'll get at least ps4 BC
Although PS4 was my favorite console this generation, I'm surprisingly uninterested in the PS5. I'll be content with my PS4 until Sony presents something new and fresh. I have zero desire to play Horizon 2, God of War 2, Spiderman 2, Bloodbourne 2, etc. That said, tomorrow's PS5 presentation will be no less exciting.
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