Sony vs. Microsoft (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, 13:52 (3447 days ago) @ Kahzgul

A few thoughts:

Backward compatibility is a big deal. I hope this causes Sony to scrap Playstation Now or at least reinvent it.

Both systems were dicks about backwards compatibility, and I think it hurt them both. I really think PS2 was only so successful because it was a direct upgrade to PS1 without requiring a brand new game library. Same for Xbox 360 upgrading original Xbox. I don't understand both companies scrapping it with the new systems.

You understand how the backward compatibility worked in the ps2 right? There was literally ps1 hardware inside. This was possible only because even at the time of release, the ps1 had inexpensive generic chips. The emotion engine of the PS2 was custom designed for the system. It wasn't a mass produced R3000 that was in tons of other stuff. That means putting a ps2 inside a ps3 would be hard. Putting a ps3 inside a ps4 would be even harder.

it was scrapped because it'd be too damn expensive, and emulation can't keep up! We are just barely getting PS2 emulation working, and you think Sony could have a PS3 emulator run on a PS4?! Emulation of 8 way parallel processing is beyond impossible right now at playable speeds.