Some of you may have wondered this, even been extremely angry about this (like I was) when you found out that the next generation was not backwards compatible. Well, after I took some time to think about it, I started to understand. So let's start at the beginning of the understanding that I began to have. Why do you think the consoles aren't backwards compatible? Lets thing back to all the series you've ever played, for example, since it's one of the easiest to show for, is the Call of Duty series. When you bought Call of Duty: Ghosts, your goal has become to enjoy that game as much as possible, right? It makes sense, you want to get every bit of enjoyment out of it as you can since you spent a ridiculous amount of money on it yeah? Alright, well consider this. What if you hadn't been able to purchase it? You would still be playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 right now wouldn't you? Or would you really? The thing is, a while back whenever I was playing Black Ops 2 after it had come out, I wanted to go back and play the original Call of Duty: Zombies maps from World at War. Then I wanted to play online since that was the only CoD that I hadn't ever prestiged on because it was so difficult on that game for some reason, plus I LOVED the guns and maps from that one. But the thing is, when I tried to play online, I spent 30 minutes just trying to find a match with at least 4 people in it. The problem was that everyone had moved on to the new games, and not anyone wanted to play the old ones anymore. So let's put this into current perspective. Sony and Microsoft both want their consoles to finish out their 10 year life cycles. (For those that don't know, they've only fully completed about 8-9 years of their life cycles) They say they'll keep releasing content, and good content at that, for a while until finally dropping them to focus fully on the "Next Generation Consoles." Consider the fact that everyone decided to go pick up the next generation consoles, but those few thousand people that can't due to monetary issues. They would go pick up the next Call of Duty, and not be able to play with anyone online, completely ruining their console experience, and possibly making developers decide that it's not worth making the games for that generation anymore. So the PS3 and Xbox 360 would pretty much end their life cycles 1-2 years early, and lose a lot of fans due to their lack of caring for that generation. Now, the consideration that I have with this extends a little farther. There is a possibility that the consoles indeed ARE backwards compatible, though that feature is not yet, what we can call "Unlocked." There is a possibility that a small update later on will be able to allow the consoles to play previous generation disks, especially because both generations used Blu-Ray technology to play back titles. Given this is just a speculation and probably won't happen anyway, there's no reason to fret. Sony has already announced and talked a lot about their Gaikai streaming service that will be launching not to far in the distant future that will allow your PS4 console to play previous generation content including PSOne, PS2, and even PS3 games. This is something I can't wait to see what they do with it and hope that it won't be a huge fee added on to your already subscribed PSPlus.
Back to what I was originally talking about to just wrap this up. If they allowed the consoles to be backwards compatible, then the games like CoD: Ghosts would lose all the people playing on that console and everyone would be unable to find lobbies to play in and enjoy their old consoles.
Thanks again for reading, and please continue to feel free to let me know about topics you want to know more about and giving me stuff to argue over or even just talk about with everyone. Furthermore, I may start doing YouTube Vlogs over this topics as well that may go deeper into it, or just provide a faster way to get the information. Let me know what you think about this idea in messages or comments. Thanks and hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving/Black Friday, and find some great deals on Cyber Monday!
No comments:
Post a Comment