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Is Backward Compatibility Still Important?

February 04, 2011 in Blog comments 5

With Sony’s NGP making a switch to a card-based format, a lot of the old UMD based games will never get re-released on the new format. The lack of backward compatibility support is nothing new as seen by what Microsoft and Sony did before. So the big question is, do we even care about having the backward compatibility feature anymore?

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    redneonfish Feb 6, 11
    I don't care about it anymore, apart from the odd game. But I keep all of my old systems, so I can play them whenever I want.
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    Bale Fire Feb 6, 11
    I never really cared much in the first place, and I care even less now. Between all the awesome PS3 games and remakes backwards compatibility just doesn't seem important.
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    Gamesta100 Feb 6, 11
    I love BC.For the last week, 90% of my gaming has been PS2 games on my old PS3.
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    FinalFantasyFanaticc Feb 6, 11
    I think BC is very important, pretty pissed my PS3 Slim can't play my old PSOne FF games tbh, it's the only reason I still keep my PS2 nowadays.
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    TurMoiL911 Feb 6, 11
    Knowing today's business models of remaking games, my guess is that the total lack of backwards compatibility in the future would allow developers to just re-release HD remakes of games for them to sell instead of letting us just replay the older copies we might already have.

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