Best-Selling game line commits ritual suicide

[KenM]

Personally, I am wary of Microtransactions as a whole.

Sure, $5 for Time Pilot sounds nice enough. But I bought Time Pilot 10 years ago as part of a $20 collection of 10 Konami games on a cd for the PS1. Which played on the PS2, and which hopefully will play on the PS3. (Unless they break the backwards compatiblity like MS did with the 360.)

I love the older games and have a Xbox 360. But I don't think Microsoft will make alot of the retro collections for the Xbox backwards compatable with the 360 because of Xbox live arcade. I'd rather buy the retro collection for $20.00 and get 20 games then pay 5$/ a game to download and play.

 

[Bront]

Sure, $5 for Time Pilot sounds nice enough. But I bought Time Pilot 10 years ago as part of a $20 collection of 10 Konami games on a cd for the PS1. Which played on the PS2, and which hopefully will play on the PS3. (Unless they break the backwards compatiblity like MS did with the 360.)

I believe that the PS3 will be PS2 but not PS1 compatable.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Which played on the PS2, and which hopefully will play on the PS3. (Unless they break the backwards compatiblity like MS did with the 360.)

The backwards compatibility - out of the box - will be as broken on the PS3 as it the 360's was - and the for same reason.

The reason? Simple. Graphics.

The Xbox was NVvidia based and switched to ATI and simialrly, the PS3 has now switched to NVidia based graphics.

The graphics commands are not compatible and must be translated through an emulator patch for each game to the new graphics chipset, that's all. The API for the console platform assumes one graphics standard, not many like a PC has. It's not a big deal.

My 360 runs nearly all of my old Xbox games. I suppose there are a few it won't - but I've never had the urge to replay those so I'm not even sure if they *don't* work.

 

[trancejeremy]

Oh yeah, if the hardware is different, then backwards compatiblity has to be done through emulation, not via hardware. However, that's not that difficult - it really depends on how much effort you want to put into it. MS didn't put much effort into it, and even made plans to drop it until people complained.

Here's the current list:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm

It's actually missing some of my favorite games, and it's missing some of the retro compilations I have for the Xbox - notmably the Midway Games collections and Atari Anthology


There have been some reports that Sony will put PS2 hardware in the PS3, at least early models until they get the emulation working (That's what they did with the PS2, and Nintendo did with the GBA). Presumably they do have PS1 emulation working, since they've been doing that for the PSP