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I chose the ps3 because it had usb controllers. I thought that would make the controllers forward compatible to ps4. I'm done with consoles.

by LanceH 10y ago

baby 10y ago
forward compatible with a console released 7 years apart? It shows how different the clientele of Nintendo is, since they change the controllers at every new iteration.
- zorked 10y ago
  Nintendo does backwards compatibility a lot better than Sony. Consoles have been compatible with the previous generation since the Wii (which would play Gamecube games) and handhelds have always compatible with the previous generation, from the Game Boy Color all the way to New 3DS.
  - swiley 10y ago
    The SNES was actually supposed to play NES games as well, but that ended up getting dropped.
- LanceH 10y ago
  For a controller, sure. The current controller has all the buttons the old controller has. They are both USB/bluetooth. Most games need a one or two sticks and the standard buttons. There is no reason they couldn't develop a system to cover a grand total of two controller specs, both of which they created and which probably have a 90+% overlap. I'll stick to my PC, where every controller works.
  - SixSigma 10y ago
    > I'll stick to my PC, where every controller works. Your PC still has a 15 pin gameport and a 9/25 pin serial?
theandrewbailey 10y ago
The current console cycle should drill into everyone that each console is its own mutually exclusive walled garden, with no expectations of compatibility between them. I think everyone got spoiled with PS1 games compatible on PS2. Since then, backwards compatibility (outside Nintendo) has generally been spotty at best, but usually gone.
- MrMember 10y ago
  Nintendo has an advantage in that their hardware is generally cheaper than the competition so they don't have to muck around with software based backwards compatibility. They just put the hardware from the old console inside the new one. The Wii is a Gamecube. The DS is a GBA.
  - theandrewbailey 10y ago
    > They just put the hardware from the old console inside the new one. That's pretty easy to do when you don't switch CPU architectures every generation, and the new chips are (mostly) a faster version of the old ones. Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U all have a PowerPC CPU in them, with an AMD (ATI) GPU.

I chose the ps3 because it had usb controllers. I thought that would make the controllers forward compatible to ps4. I'm done with consoles.

by LanceH 10y ago

I chose the ps3 because it had usb controllers. I thought that would make the controllers forward compatible to ps4. I'm done with consoles.

baby 10y ago

forward compatible with a console released 7 years apart? It shows how different the clientele of Nintendo is, since they change the controllers at every new iteration.

zorked 10y ago
Nintendo does backwards compatibility a lot better than Sony. Consoles have been compatible with the previous generation since the Wii (which would play Gamecube games) and handhelds have always compatible with the previous generation, from the Game Boy Color all the way to New 3DS.
- swiley 10y ago
  The SNES was actually supposed to play NES games as well, but that ended up getting dropped.
LanceH 10y ago
For a controller, sure. The current controller has all the buttons the old controller has. They are both USB/bluetooth. Most games need a one or two sticks and the standard buttons. There is no reason they couldn't develop a system to cover a grand total of two controller specs, both of which they created and which probably have a 90+% overlap. I'll stick to my PC, where every controller works.
- SixSigma 10y ago
  > I'll stick to my PC, where every controller works. Your PC still has a 15 pin gameport and a 9/25 pin serial?

theandrewbailey 10y ago

The current console cycle should drill into everyone that each console is its own mutually exclusive walled garden, with no expectations of compatibility between them. I think everyone got spoiled with PS1 games compatible on PS2. Since then, backwards compatibility (outside Nintendo) has generally been spotty at best, but usually gone.

MrMember 10y ago
Nintendo has an advantage in that their hardware is generally cheaper than the competition so they don't have to muck around with software based backwards compatibility. They just put the hardware from the old console inside the new one. The Wii is a Gamecube. The DS is a GBA.
- theandrewbailey 10y ago
  > They just put the hardware from the old console inside the new one. That's pretty easy to do when you don't switch CPU architectures every generation, and the new chips are (mostly) a faster version of the old ones. Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U all have a PowerPC CPU in them, with an AMD (ATI) GPU.