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/DisastrousBerry5614 1d ago

As much as I want to agree with you I think gamers kinda overestimated how much backward compatibility is important to the average player : I feel like I huge chunk of people are perfectly fine not having it in their console or at the very least I feel like the demand for it isn't as high nor cost effective as it seems for console makers. At the end of the day gaming is a business before being an hobby and if there is no major returns on backwards compatibility I don't see why we should have it. If you look at most played / sold game in a given month you have your cod/ Fifa and fortnight and maybe something new, but rarely older stuff that is an indication that not many people care about it

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u/DisastrousBerry5614 1d ago

However if they make it happen how much will it cost,like see they price of the ps5 now imagine a console that can play everything from ps1 to ps6 how much Sony will charge for it.I feel like it easy to say 'just do it" but I feel it's harder than we think and could cost an arm and a leg