Or you have others who already switched to Sony at the start, and they’re not going to also buy an Xbox One just to unlock their 360 library. The appeal is still there, but you have people like me that were resigned to the fact that this would never happen so they ditched their libraries. Two years into the console’s lifecycle means that transition is a little rougher. Rather than keeping two boxes around and trying to build a new library from scratch with the new-gen system, you can simply have one new box that plays everything you’ve bought over the last six years, and everything else yet to come. Ideally, you want your console to offer the ability to play last-gen games right at launch, which makes the transition from one system to another much more painless. Backwards compatibility is a great function to have and certainly no one (no one sane, anyway), is saying that it’s a bad thing for a console to offer.īut with that said, the longer time goes on, the less relevant backwards compatibility will be. Though Microsoft’s console has come a long way since its disastrous launch in 2013, the sales gap remains enormous between the PS4 and Xbox One. Past that logic, Sony is still in a position where they don’t need to view the Xbox One as nipping at their heels. And the fact is that if Sony converted the PS4 into a backward compatible machine, much of the point of PlayStation Now, which they’ve invested so much into, would be rendered moot. Nintendo, suddenly are offering full backward compatibility for their consoles, your rental system doesn’t look quite as appealing.

The problem, of course, is now when both of your rivals, Microsoft and

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