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MS now has no incentive to make XBLA games transfer over... PSN games don't.

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Lord_TenseEye
Posted 2/21/2013 1:44:56 PM
BahamutBBob posted...
I would think that they would want to carry over XBLA as much as possible as a selling point.

"Bought this on our old console? Yeah, you don't lose it if you buy our new console."


This.
JKSonic
(Topic Creator)
Posted 2/21/2013 1:50:55 PM
From: Winternova | #110
HOW COULD IT WORK WITH PSN TITLES IF THE ARCHITECTURE WON'T WORK FOR DISC-BASED TITLES?


How is the WII U doing it? Oh right, built in emulation...
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bob15x
Posted 2/21/2013 1:52:16 PM
I believe they will transfer over. MS is trying to connect xbox, windows and phone together.
Silent Sniper IV
Posted 2/21/2013 1:55:17 PM

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Thats annoying as hell. I was waiting on biting on a few final fantasy titles that were on sale, and won't be buying them now. I don't want to have to keep my ps3 around. It's things like this that really dissuade me from messing with console DD, and makes me appreciate steam so much more.

I also seriously refuse to believe that they can't emulate ps1/2 titles. PCs at a fraction of the specs have effortlessly done that since 2001. PS3 I can understand a bit better. Cell processor seems to have been a terrible idea, and never seems to have made much use of any advantages it had.
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smurfsn1p3r
Posted 2/21/2013 1:53:51 PM
What's wrong with keeping your Xbox 360 around? Not everything needs to be BC.
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_OujiDoza_
Posted 2/21/2013 1:57:54 PM
smurfsn1p3r posted...
What's wrong with keeping your Xbox 360 around? Not everything needs to be BC.


Exactly, I'm keeping my box and probably buying a slim too (I have an original arcade) to play my old games on, it's not as tedious as most tend to make it out to be.
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Ness0123456789
Posted 2/21/2013 1:57:54 PM
From: DividerByZero | #006
From: Reel_Big_Mike | #004
scythecam posted...
Game companies never miss an oppurtunity to swindle their customers.

Its pretty sad.


lol, you bought the games on a specific console. The fact that it doesn't work on a completely different system is hardly "swindling the customers."

Maybe not, but it's still a bad move.

You spent maybe $200 on XBLA games, and you can't even play them on the console you just bought in the same line.


I missed the part where I'm no longer legally able to play them on my Xbox 360 just because I own a 720. Same deal with owning a PS4 and not being able to play my PS3 games and PSN games on my PS3 anymore because I bought a new console.
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PraetorXyn
Posted 2/21/2013 1:59:08 PM
It's times like this I'm glad I just switched entirely to PC. I have over a hundred games on Steam (I just started using it when Skyrim came out), paid roughly $600 for all of them put together.

And in the near future, I'm going to get System Shock 2, the rights of which finally came out of limbo. I've been looking for that game to get a digital release for years. It was released in 98 or so. And it will run on PC just fine.

Sure, some older games on PC have issues running on Windows 7 and such, but you can always fix that problem pretty easily with compatibility settings and whatnot. And if you buy it on Steam, or from GOG, it's pretty much guaranteed to work on modern platforms.
pez2k_
Posted 2/21/2013 1:59:33 PM
PraetorXyn posted...
The reason the PS4 cannot do this is because the PS3's Cell processor was a PowerP-based architecture, which is COMPETELY different than the x86-64 architecture for the PS4. This was a very good move, as the thing that hurt the PS3 the most was that was so difficult to develop for compared to PC/360 because of it's screwed up proprietary architecture.


The 360 is PowerPC-based too, however much more conventional than the Cell. The ease of porting was due to MS sharing APIs between console and PC with XInput, Direct3D 9, Xbox / Windows Live and so on being available for both platforms.

The jump from PS3 to PS4 is an equivalent shift in architecture to Xbox to 360, but in reverse (PowerPC to x86). However, where the Xbox was considerably less powerful than the 360 and could be software emulated, the PS3 and PS4 are much closer on raw processing power.
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Rome218
Posted 2/21/2013 1:59:57 PM
smurfsn1p3r posted...
What's wrong with keeping your Xbox 360 around? Not everything needs to be BC.


I was just going to post that my plan B will just be to keep my 360.

Without bc, I feel less inclined to purchase the nextbox over the PS4. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to stay with the new Microsoft console is I have so much invested in arcade games and games on demand.
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