Backwards compatibility is actually where xbox shines. A solid amount of games from the 360 and xbone will play right off the disk on a series x. When they drop in price they’ll be worth picking up as a retro machine.
Meanwhile sony has a pathetic library of their classics and you have to rebuy them all digitally.
I disagree =) I mean sure, it plays a couple 360 games but A) it’s like 600 out of a library of 2100, which is a step back from the 360’s already poor ~570/1100 original Xbox games, B) while good stuff like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are available, it’s missing a bunch of critical 360 bangers like PGR 3 and 4, Amped 3, the Forza Motorsport games, basically anything with licensing issues is screwed forever. On the PS3 I did not have to wait for Sony to work out the rights on the Wipeout Fusion soundtrack before putting it in my PS3!
A lot of the 360 BC is filled out with games that are way better either on PC or in a modern rerelease on SX: original Mass Effect 3 is backward compat? Okay… Looking at it pragmatically, a PS5 completely replaces a PS4, and runs literally every game (bar like three nobody cares about) better than a PS4. A Series X will never be a 360 replacement, I still need a 360, so I don’t think SX BC is that useful. I would rather have the full PS4 library than like a quarter of 360 games. I have to keep both a 360 and PS3 anyway, so…
I still have a ps3 and 360, but the ps3 gets more use because all my favourites on 360 can be played better elsewhere.
If i wanna play Infamous I can’t get that anywhere, the ratchet and clank games are nowhere to be found. The Jak games got rereleased, but they’re expensive. Sony totally abandoned their back catalogue. The original ps3 model had good backwards compatibility, but those aren’t very available and also will eventually break if you actually use it.
I mean, sure, you can play the soundtrack of some more games? But i don’t think many people are still putting in their ost cds in their consoles.
It’s true that most 360 headliners got onboard the ark. Halo games, the Gears games are about to get rereleased, Dead Rising, stuff like that. But there are some games that have no PC port (Forza 4, PGR 3/4, Import Tuner, the Ubisoft Naruto games, Crackdown) and even for the ones that’re backward compat (Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon) it’s no way worth getting an XB One or SX when not all 360 games work anyway.
I will admit my PS3 gets more use too, partly because I installed PS3HEN on it so I can and also because yeah, the exclusives are way better. Infamous 1 & 2, every Motorstorm game, Demon’s Souls, LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2, The Puppeteer, Folklore, all that good shit. Also there are some games that are on other platforms but end up better on PS3 anyway, like Alone in the Dark Inferno or Fatal Interia EX =)
Backwards compatibility is actually where xbox shines. A solid amount of games from the 360 and xbone will play right off the disk on a series x. When they drop in price they’ll be worth picking up as a retro machine.
Meanwhile sony has a pathetic library of their classics and you have to rebuy them all digitally.
I disagree =) I mean sure, it plays a couple 360 games but A) it’s like 600 out of a library of 2100, which is a step back from the 360’s already poor ~570/1100 original Xbox games, B) while good stuff like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are available, it’s missing a bunch of critical 360 bangers like PGR 3 and 4, Amped 3, the Forza Motorsport games, basically anything with licensing issues is screwed forever. On the PS3 I did not have to wait for Sony to work out the rights on the Wipeout Fusion soundtrack before putting it in my PS3!
A lot of the 360 BC is filled out with games that are way better either on PC or in a modern rerelease on SX: original Mass Effect 3 is backward compat? Okay… Looking at it pragmatically, a PS5 completely replaces a PS4, and runs literally every game (bar like three nobody cares about) better than a PS4. A Series X will never be a 360 replacement, I still need a 360, so I don’t think SX BC is that useful. I would rather have the full PS4 library than like a quarter of 360 games. I have to keep both a 360 and PS3 anyway, so…
I still have a ps3 and 360, but the ps3 gets more use because all my favourites on 360 can be played better elsewhere.
If i wanna play Infamous I can’t get that anywhere, the ratchet and clank games are nowhere to be found. The Jak games got rereleased, but they’re expensive. Sony totally abandoned their back catalogue. The original ps3 model had good backwards compatibility, but those aren’t very available and also will eventually break if you actually use it.
I mean, sure, you can play the soundtrack of some more games? But i don’t think many people are still putting in their ost cds in their consoles.
It’s true that most 360 headliners got onboard the ark. Halo games, the Gears games are about to get rereleased, Dead Rising, stuff like that. But there are some games that have no PC port (Forza 4, PGR 3/4, Import Tuner, the Ubisoft Naruto games, Crackdown) and even for the ones that’re backward compat (Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon) it’s no way worth getting an XB One or SX when not all 360 games work anyway.
I will admit my PS3 gets more use too, partly because I installed PS3HEN on it so I can
and also because yeah, the exclusives are way better. Infamous 1 & 2, every Motorstorm game, Demon’s Souls, LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2, The Puppeteer, Folklore, all that good shit. Also there are some games that are on other platforms but end up better on PS3 anyway, like Alone in the Dark Inferno or Fatal Interia EX =)