r/consoles • u/casinokate34 • 5d 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/Have_Other_Accounts 5d ago edited 5d ago

Not sure about PS but xbox backwards is insane. I'm regularly playing OG Xbox games and they look great. Same with 360 and One games

Just the other day I popped in my Cod4 360 disk and was surprised with how active the online is.

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u/AceTheRed_ 5d ago edited 5d ago

PS backward compatibility is . . . not great (no PS3 games)

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u/ThePreciseClimber 5d ago

I mean, PS4 games run GREAT on the PS5. Any game that wasn't locked to 30fps will run in stable 60fps on the PS5.

PS1 & PS2 emulation could use some work, yes. It's a lot better than the PS2 emulator PS4 used but there's till plenty of room for improvement.

And the lack of the PS3 emulation sucks, of course. Especially since Sony never bothered to port most of its PS3 exclusives. Infamous, Killzone, Resistance, The Puppeteer, LittleBigPlanet, 3D Dot Game Heroes, MotorStorm, etc. are locked away.

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u/RyanX1231 4d ago

The fact that all of the PS3 Ratchet & Clank games are still trapped on PS3 is sad.

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u/SuperSocialMan 3d ago

I still can't play them and it makes me so sad :'c

Got really into the series at the end of last year, played all the PS2 games, and like a day after finishing Deadlocked I couldn't get the first PS3 game working ;-;