by Reno » Tue Feb 12, '08, 12:31 am
Whenever I think of backwards compatibility, I always think of the Sega Saturn, and how irritating it is to have that cartridge slot back there, but no way to play Mega Drive/Genesis games... In a way, I guess that kinda relates to nowadays with the PS2/PS3 thing that hugues was talking about. The Saturn had a terrible line-up of games, maybe Sega ditched the MegaDrive support to force gamers to 'move up' and buy the crap Saturn games; interesting...
But that's a time long past; as far as today's consoles go, I, as an avid videogamer, see backwards compatibility as being very important and a huge deciding factour in the next-gen console I purchase. Having a huge library of games (albeit old ones) to play upon getting the console is a big plus, otherwise, a situation similar to what occurred with the Saturn is bound to happen, and has in the case of the PS3 anyway.
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