@idrcnem11 PS4 is same way. The issue is the CPU is changing. Sony and Microsoft have been using IBM Power and now they are switching to AMD. Google "Apple Power to Intel Transition" and read up what Apple went through. You cannot switch the fundamental architecture of your platform and keep backwards compatibility. It just doesn't work that way.
@aovannor You cannot compile code on a Power CPU and then run it on an AMD CPU. You cannot compile code in Windows and simply run it on a Mac. It never works like that, and you are all acting like it is easy. I'm a developer and know better.
@tweezzzy Commenting on the story perhaps. I am fairly sure most the people that don't care about this didn't bother looking at the comments as it was a non-story to them.
@everyday182 more consoles have been released that did not support backwards compatibility than those that did. When I buy a console, I know backwards compatibility might not exists.
@TheBlade6 Well, I am personally leaning toward PS4 too but I don't "know" anything yet. All I know is most (if not all) the downsides of Xbox One are actually true (or could be true) of PS4 as well. People really just making lots of assumptions about what PS4 will or will not do.
@TheBlade6 and your PS4 won't play a single PS3 game either. So go ahead and pretend like the compatibility had ANYTHING to do with that decision, but you will buy the PS4 for some reason other than backwards compatibility.
@DarkSaber2k spoken as someone that's never really looked into that. "Strides" is an incredible overstatement. Almost no games that matter support both OS's (other than Valve's own games)
I have almost never went back and played an old game once I got the new system. I'll never get why people get so upset about this. SNES broke compatablity with NES. Nintendo 64 was not compatible with and SNES. Gamecube didn't play Nintendo 64.
Heck, the Xbox360 didn't even have compatibility with all Xbox games.
This is the reality of console gaming. Stop buying consoles if you don't like it. Compatibility exists when it can and is tossed it when it can't.
@aovannor That's exactly what happens if you switch to Mac or Linux which is similar to the switch Sony and Microsoft are making that forces them have to break backwards compatibility.
The ONLY way you could have backwards compatibility would probably involve virtulization of some kind or to actually having the guts of the PS3/Xbox360 integrated into the new consoles.
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