Old systems simply shouldn't go away and the infrastructure should just allow it. I'm sure Windows 98 still downloads updates if I install it, or Windows XP. And guess it's not taking a lot of bandwidth from Microsoft Servers for it to be a problem.
The size of all the updates must be laughable by todays standards and this way they give costumers flexibility.
With consoles, even if they want to elimitate PS3 servers, I'm sure they can put all the data on the PS4/PS5 server system (if it's the same) and just keep a front end that resolves what the PS3, PSP or PS Vita are asking for.
Retrocompatibility with them, of course, would probably serve as an incentive for Sony to keep them around working as is. Microsoft is a better success story here, but I'm sure Xbox and Xbox 360 games can still be purchased both because their online infrastruture was more forward looking but also because there is BC and thus these titles still amount to money.
Im not a tech engineer, but would be cool if sony just slap on a good emulator on PS5 to run ps1-ps3 games lol
PS1-PS2 would be easy. Also PSP and PS Vita, I guess.
PS3... I'm sure most games would run, but some would be very hard to pull; some of the ones that are tied to it to this day, like Killzone 2.
Then again I'm not an advocate for buying everything again to be honest. One of the things that will tie us to one brand or the other from here on out is precisely what we have purchased on our accounts. And that's what Nintendo has been doing poorly for 3 generations now, and the reason I refuse to spend 1 euro on their store.
The bc ps3 was literally your best bet for retaining as close to 100% as possible. How much was it back then? $600. Only people that were the absolute hardcore of hardcore bought it. So ps3 had to be revised so that bc components were removed. Get ya ps3 bc 2nd hand
You're referring to PS3 with full PS2 hardware BC, right?
Well, the issue was that PS2 was so proprietary that they needed to put a full PS2 inside every PS3, CPU (RSX) and GPU (GSX) included. They did it because that was the Ken Kutaragi way, note PS2 also had a PSone chip built in for BC, but with PS2 parts, this was expensive to do and impossible to keep on a console that was competing with the leaner X360 (also leaner because it was doing BC via emulation).
No one is obviously advocating for that to happen. If the system is powerful enough you can just emulate it.
Nintendo just released an OK port of 3D Marios with limited time availability to drive up sales.
Nothing was ported: Emulated.
And that's a problem, Wii U had Mario Galaxy it on it's Virtual Store; both Wii and Wii U had Mario 64, and here you have a new console, third in a row, where you have to buy something you already own... Again.
You only buy if you want, but it would be nice if people that already purchased the game multiple times virtually (probably something like 5 people) had the separate games instantly. It's good costumer service.
Limited edition of something they re-release every time they want to make easy money is just dumb. The effort was abysmal. (but it prints money by itself, so that's part of the problem)
While I would love it if they did, they have no responsibility to do so. That being said IP holders are sitting on literal goldmines by not porting these games to modern platforms IMO. Serioulsy, how many millions of sales would Squeenix make by putting out Vagrant Story for $20 completely untouched?
Vagrant Story?
Probably not even 1 million. It was/is on PS3 and PSP (PS Vita via PSP BC), I'm sure they have data on that.
It's not Final Fantasy.
You do get that the CMOS "issue" is a PS4 thing, a piece of hardware in active service and still regularly updated, meaning that its something that could be fixed anytime? Both before or after the actual hardware ceases production.
Usually they don't patch those things after they stop supporting the hardware.
They might now, so it's useful that people are thinking and talking about it.
Storefronts need more transparency, and to be built with a high degree of future proofing. Even if this happens with these consoles, the main thing is if it was due to poor planning, then it can't ever happen again.