E3: Feature: Why You Shouldn't Worry About PS5 Backwards Compatibility
Why would anybody play this?
Jim Ryan has been appointed the new President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, and PlayStation fans are worried. The divisive executive has been with the Japanese giant since the beginning, playing a key role in the company’s dominance of the European continent. But he’s also said a couple of silly things to the media, like blaming the PlayStation 4’s lack of console cross-play on the fact that it needs to think of the children. Frankly, he should have got bonus points for using a Simpsons reference in that shoddy piece of PR spin.
The biggest reason for Ryan ire, though, is an off-the-cuff remark he made about backwards compatibility. The executive has been quoted as asking why anyone would play older games, but there was context to what he was talking about. Here’s the full quote: “I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PSone, PS2, PS3, and PS4 games, and the PSone and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, why would anybody play this?” It’s a clumsy comment to say the least, but there’s no doubt that certain genres of game age less gracefully than others. Would you honestly pick FIFA International Soccer over FIFA 19?
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