so, my major issue with the 8th gen consoles is, no backwards compatibility. backwards compatibility has always been a major selling point to me..


So, I am wondering, if they made a peripheral add-on for you 8th gen console that gave it backwards compatibility (and by add-on, I mean something that connects to the console itself to allow that functionality, sorta like the Sega CD), would you be willing to buy it?

Depends on the price. I wouldn't pay more than $50 for something like that.

No. The fact that you can't play older disks on new consoles is a blatant scam on the part of the designers. They have to specifically design the disk drive to be only compatible with certain disks. I'd understand not being able to play PlayStation disks in an xbox, but not being able to play 360 disks in a xbox one is purely designed to svck as much money from you as possible. If you could only use certain generation computer disks with certain generation computers people would be asking what the [censored] is wrong with these people, but they don't seem to get that consoles are computers. That's all they are. Computers designed with a very specific purpose in mind. There is no reason to make future generation consoles unable to play previous generation games. The only issue would be trying to play future games on older consoles and that could easily be fixed. When they coded the xbox they could have coded it to only play xbox games. With the 360, instead of erasing the coding for xbox games, they could have just added 360 games to the recognized disks. Xbox One adds xbox one disks to the recognized disks and so on for future consoles. Instead they say screw you, you can only play xbox one games with this console regardless of the fact that we made the previous consoles and this one is just basically an upgraded version of the previous one. If they were to then say well you know, I COULD let you play your old games, if you give me more money, it'd basically be extortion. I wouldn't be able to bring myself to reward them for deliberately [censored] us by giving them more money for something that shouldn't be an issue. I could put up with an initial level of [censored] because you just have to expect that from greed driven companies like this, I couldn't put up with yet another layer of [censored] though.

There's a reason why I keep my games and consoles now. It's a waste of time hoping it'll happen from a company.

You can't really compare console and PC backwards compatibility. PCs have had pretty much the same basic architecture since the 80's, to keep compatibility as high as possible, while each console generation is usually completely different than the previous one.

It probably wouldn't be too difficult for them to get games from two generations ago running via emulation, but previous generation hardware is different to run natively and too demanding to emulate.

It has nothing to do with disc compatibility. The Xbox 360 used a custom Power-PC/ARM processor (like the ones found in mobile devices and really old Macs) while the XboxOne uses an x86 processor (like the ones found in laptops and desktops). Simply put the CPU's are not compatible with the code of the older games.

Would it be possible to add the previous gen games to the new gen online stores? If so then I could see spending a dollar to download a game you've previously owned or $5 if it's new to you...they would need a monetary incentive to add the old games and those prices seem fair imo.

And how would you prove to the online store that you owned said game on the previous console? Console games don't come with activation codes like PC games used to, and since you can't stick your old game into the new console to prove you owned it......I don't see how that would work.