No backwards compatibility but used games are good
EA seems to think that the days of Sony and Microsoft wasting time on backward compatibility is over. And they also seem to think that the used games business is a necessary evil. I agree on both fronts. What say you?
“An important thing to remember is that next-gen consoles will most likely not be backwards compatible,” he stated. “If you [play] multiplayer on a game, you’ll most likely not be able to play with someone on a different generation.”
“So at the end of the day, it’s storage capacity. Unless you’ve got a giant storage server in your house, keeping hundreds of games can tax your storage capacity. And so having a healthy retail channel out there like GameStop or Best Buy or others is important, and to the extent that used games is important to them, I think that’s a positive.”
It doesn’t seem at all like a good business move to concentrate on making games compatible. Although I’d love them to be, odds are that most people already have the old console so they can play the games on it. It’s inconvenient sure but companies aren’t really worried about that now are they?
February 13th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
i have a bigger issue with not being able to play used games. If they drop that aspect gamers will be more pissed. The issue with no BC seems to be falling off from the radar of many gamers I think.
February 13th, 2013 at 1:27 pm
dude if they do that they can fagetaboutit
February 13th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
I don’t know, I have SO many 360 games right now and I love this idea of trading in my 360 to pay half price for the new Xbox but I don’t want to have all these games I couldn’t use y’know?
February 13th, 2013 at 2:49 pm
I think it would be a loss if the next XBOX isn’t backwards compatible. I still play some of my older 360 games. It’s as if they would be forcing us to move ahead with the next gen console and leave the 360 console behind.
February 13th, 2013 at 3:32 pm
The least they could do, without online multi-player, is allow me to pay for a downloadable emulator. Also, with this “storage-issue”, if they made greater use of cloud usage/storage, I could play most games without waiting ten minutes for them to load.
They might corner the market if they made games their first priority. Cut out load-times and stop telling me that “I may lose progress” EVERY TIME I JUST SAVED THE DAMN GAME, seems like a no-brainer.
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