but I know a lot of people that didn't buy an Xbox One last gen that were excited to get the Series X for that reason alone.
That "reason" existed for XONE though, did it not have 360 support?
It already applied to XONE, shit it applies to Wii U, its BC to Wii. Its literally the worst selling Nintendo console, yet Switch with ZERO BC is breaking records for them.
I don't know how much evidence is really needed to show the vast mass majority seek to play new content, they do not play that much games past 6 months after release let alone past 6 years.
So I tend to play lots of older games around the PS1 or PS2 generations , as to why I KEEP MY SYSTEMS or even recently I was playing the Link To The Past port on the GBA Player for the Gamecube, I'm sorry but I KNOW I'm not the majority, I fully 100% understand the way I play games isn't what MOST are doing.
MOST are not taking time out of their week to randomly play Xenosaga 3 or connect a Gamecube to play an old GBA game.... what does that tell you about that actually install base for games like that? Its simply not the majority and little evidence supports this huge audience for it, just the opposite. The info I last saw was something like 1.5% or something, which I'm not really shocked.
Look at the Switch numbers, look at the PS4 numbers, shit look at the SALES of brand new games, its clear the majority seek NEW GAMES, they do not seek older titles outside of a Minecraft and or GTAV. So enough shows its simply not something that a majority seek. I know personally how I game simply isn't what most are doing or care for. If you give that much of a fuck about old games, give that much of a fuck about the systems that PLAY THOSE GAMES if you wish to even continuing playing them. To me, the entire argument is a complete BS hypocrisy of folks claiming how much they care for their old games and wish sooooo badly to play them (yet didn't keep the systems, have never heard of Amazon, Ebay, goodwill or a yard sale for god sakes)
So with PS3 they had to move the fuck on, I saw no reason them to literally take steps BACK so you could play old games as if you can't buy a PS2 (or PS3 for that matter post PS3). Cell is something at the time they needed to do and I have no issue with it. They can remaster and or remake those key titles and move on. Even for PS6, if they have some crazy ass CPU shit and it can't work with other systems, idgaf. Work with the new, move on and folks can keep their PS5's if they feel just, but relax with this crap of making it sound as if the company needs to literally halt all new innovations to cater to BC.... Its nice, its not lets gimp our fucking system for life nice..... NOTHING is stopping you from getting a job and buying a used PS2 (that has PS1) and a used PS3.
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Thats nice. My PS2 from legit 20 years ago is still working (along with the others I bought over time) lol
No company owes you free hardware to replace other hardware, or continued free copies of a game or anything weird like that. Shit, My PC failed, I fucking bought the parts to build a new one, I didn't bitch to a company to provide me with one as if I have zero responsibility for my own purchases or something. The reality is, hardware fails over time, but no company NEEDS to provide you with replacements for free, for live. As someone that literally builds PCs, I fully understand over time....yes, shit fails, I replace it and move on. I had a DS that died and I just bought the DS Lite lol I had a PS2 slim that died.....bought a new one from Ebay.
Did you not know you could....well buy things with money? Sony, nor Nintendo, nor MS owe you anything like new hardware for free or something.
To say they are "shitting" on their history is just exaggerating. Its like saying Nintendo is "shitting" on their history cause you can't play SNES, NES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, GB, GBA, DS, 3DS etc on Switch. ohhhh the horror, Nintendo HATES their customers and history /s
For fuck sakes, you can't even NAME 1 company that has BC of 100% of their titles or something or gives them for free completely. Nothing in the industry like that exist to demand it from any company. We have zero example of anything like that, even in other industries. Most of today's Bluray players do not play DVD (unless you clearly have a combo one), let alone VHS. When they make remasters in HD, 4KUHD etc, its not like you get it for free or anything like that, again...nothing like this exist in any industry to my understanding to be making it seem as if it should be this normal thing, yet have zero example of it happening before with others to such a wild degree.