I agree that backwards compatibility for discs isn't a huge issue, (one of life's greatest pleasures, to me, is digging out an old console and reminiscing for a while,) but with digital downloads they really have no excuse. I would like the option to play my old discs on the new hardware, but at least the reasons for that not being possible are justified, and the only real difference it makes, to me, is that I won't be upgrading to the new console immediately.bug_of_war said:I see your point, but I disagree, at least in the sense of non backwards compatability with discs (digital buys from the PSN should carry over immedietly). but they haven't and may take longer to come if at all. We shouldn't be angry at this though, sometimes we gotta move on, and video games aren't as big an investment as a new house and furniture. Looking at the film and music situation, as in the conversion from VHS-DVD-BluRay and Vinyl-Cassette-CD, I'd say that video games are just following the trend of digital art. Sure you can still get most songs and films easier than games, but that is not a bad thing, just look at Nintendo and how people are begining to groan because "Hey guys we've just started development on New NEW Super Mario Land 1 month after NEW Super Mario Land". It's fine to want to play old games, I think everybody should be able to pick up an old classic, and you can mostly still do that by holding onto your old harware. A friend of mine just recently bought himself a PS3 and 20 games for under 400 dollars, some of these games were as old as the console itself, but he still got the games and they worked.rob_simple said:Two separate arguments, there, champ. It's like me buying a new house but being told I can't move in any of my old stuff because this one is already furnished.
You're comparison with VHS-DVD-BluRay is completely justified, but where video games differ is I can't buy the same old games I love for a new console like I could with buying songs off the Apple Store or buying films on Blu-Ray, and I can still integrate my old collections of film and music into new media (DVD's play in Blu-Ray players; I can rip CD's and put them on my iPod). Hell, there are even programs to rip vinyl onto computers now, and I can transfer VHS's onto the computer, likewise, then burn them to DVD's.
Video games are really the only format that completely locks out old iterations and people seem to be alright with it, which made sense in the cartridge days when technology meant cartridges were getting smaller and smaller, but with the transition to discs that excuse is less valid and with digital content there is no reason they couldn't make it work.
I completely get where you are coming from in terms of moving on instead of constantly harping back, but in this case I feel that it's akin to throwing your copy of Batman Returns in the bin because The Dark Knight exists, now. You can embrace new ideas without completely abandoning the old ones.