Exploring the frustration around the lack of retro games on PlayStation 4 and Sony's poor approach to Backwards Compatibility.
Today, Ubisoft announced the launch of Skull and Bones’ second season, “Chorus of Havoc” in which players will face the maniacal Hubac Twins – the Compagnie Royale’s enforces who rampage through the seas.
CD Projekt has concluded support work on Cyberpunk 2077, as the studio has turned focus towards the next Witcher and several other projects.
Games Asylum: "With the video game market stalling, publishers have finally realised that it’s beneficial to release their games on as many platforms as possible. Microsoft made headlines with multiplatform announcements earlier this year, and Square-Enix has plans to cast their nets wider too. Yet, the allure is still there for publishers to release games on Apple Arcade first. It’s easy to see why, with development costs being on the lower end of the scale, and Apple clearly incentivising with their subscription model. One upshot is when games finally make the jump from Apple Arcade to consoles, they’ve already received several updates. Horizon Chase 2 is a good example of this, just as polished as a car off the showroom floor. Visually, at least."
Here we freaking go again with this:
It's very freaking simple..unlike the previous xbox360 processing chip inside it..to emulate the PS3 cell processor, and its CellBE token ring Bus, Sony already knows it is just not viable to do at this point because of costs involved to simulate at a price point cheap enough to do such at a price point low enough to be viable in this market.
With Microsoft, xbox360 processor it's far more viable to do such with the Xbox one , than it is for Sony with its PS3's chipset on the PS4.
All last cycle, oh the PS3 was lambasted for being $599.00, it was Memed, all I've seen on gamer forums last generation was lots of talk about the $599.00 price point, and snide back handed statements..oh I did not buy my new console to play old game's. Where are the new Gamez Sony..or PlayStation Has no Gamez, which continues even today..remasterstation, indie station..
Well , this remasterstation indie station is selling pretty well, due despite many seeming to want to claim it's selling based on slight power over its competition, or that it's games are over hyped and under delivered..
It's clear, that maybe it's selling better for more reasons than just backhanded compliment reasons.
The Cell processors EIB is 204GB/sec bandwidth alone , to get that in simulated mode would require a very compute heavy processing or add in the freaking CellBE into the PS4, both of which would increase the overall cost of the system.
The days of selling their PlayStation systems at a Loss are over.
Sony chose to charge for BC and they have the hardware lead ..... there is zero chance they change that model. They do charge via PS Now because they can...and they will continue to do so.
Not gonna happen.. I've lost count the amount of times they've said its not possible because it's different architecture.
Although for me it's a nice feature to have, I'm happy having it on my X1 only because I never had a 360 so I'm able to play most 360 games I missed out on.
So it wouldn't be a big deal to me if it ever did come to ps4 since I played everything I wanted on ps3... I know I'm not everyone but I'm just saying.
Some of these articles need to stop getting approved as they're doing nothing more than trolling.
PlayStation 4 does not have any backwards compatibility whatsoever by the pure definition of what backwards compatibility actually is.
You are not able to put any game inside the PlayStation 4 from any previous generation and have it actually work on the platform.
Could be because there are more important things to worry about then BC.