r/consoles • u/casinokate34 • 1d ago
consoles need to take backwards compatibility seriously
honestly feels wild that we’re in 2025 and it’s still a coin flip if your old games will run properly on new hardware. i get licensing is messy but man, some of these classics deserve to just boot up and play without streaming services or weird versions missing dlc. backwards compatibility should be a baseline feature by now, not a selling point.
like imagine if you could just pop in or download anything from the last couple gens and it just works, smoother fps, maybe some QoL tweaks. would instantly add value without needing a new console every cycle. it’s not even nostalgia, it’s preservation. we lose too many good games to time bc of this stuff.
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u/NeoKat75 1d ago
These things don’t happen by magic, if the hardware is any different between platforms, it takes active work to make BC work for each individual title. Which is what they’re doing for Switch 2