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As a Playstation guy (not really until PS2, but still having never purchased an XBox), it seems like a matter of course. Sony struggled with backwards compatibi
by obviouslygreen 13y ago
As a Playstation guy (not really until PS2, but still having never purchased an XBox), it seems like a matter of course. Sony struggled with backwards compatibility, and my 60GB PS3 has lived to be a venerable old bastion of BC... but even in that ecosystem it's gone, with the PS4 being entirely non-old-people-friendly.
At some point I stepped back and questioned where this expectation came from, and I have to guess it's based on those of us who started as PC gamers and then went to consoles: Who else would expect something from one system to magically work on another? As more and more people grow up without this preconception, I'd imagine fewer and fewer will balk at a lack of backwards compatibility.
- VLM 13y ago"I have to guess it's based on those of us who started as PC gamers and then went to consoles" Seems to be a lot of marketing hoping my kid will stop watching youtube and playing minecraft on his android tablet and move to their console. This might be a problem as people are not so cool with rebuying everything if you upgrade from one iphone to the next or one android phone/tablet to the next. The problem with the xbox one is next (whatever) GOOG and APPL release the next generation of tablets with a HDMI out. Now what? Pay 99 cents at play.google.com or $70 for a xbox game? Pay $200 oh wait you already own a nexus 7 of course so its actually $0, or pay $400 for a new xbox?
- Terretta 13y agoHDMI out on a tablet would be a regression when AirPlay gives you HD video without wires.