With Sony and Microsoft both promoting the next consoles in their lines, the PS5 and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X (or possibly 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xboxes, plural?) many are airing their expectations about things not yet revealed. The price of the consoles, the price of next-gen games,  - the list is as long as it is unconfirmed. One thing both Sony and Microsoft have confirmed is that their consoles will be backwards compatible, although they're still a bit shy on the details of how backwards compatible. With this information in hand, we should all remember that boasting backwards compatibility is like boasting having a p🌱ower button. Why? Because it's the bare minimum at this 𒆙point.

Let's elaborate. With few exceptions, backwards compatibility is very achievable, especially for any consoles using the same format of disc as it did in the years prior. The Switch is notable for making the transition from disc to cartridge and rendering that impossible, but leading up to it, Nintendo still generally kept at least one degree of backwards compatibility. And the PS3 was even able to play most PlayStation 1 ga♏mes, making Sony's later decision to neglect backwards compatibility on the PS4 all the more frustrating. So it's great that they've changed their tune. Really! But it'd be more shocking if they hadn't.

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Refusing backwards compatibility would at best mean choosing between the convenience of having all your games on one system or switching between new and old coಌnsoles anytime you want to play your old games. At worst, it could make game preservation a nightmare as current gen hardware begins to leave production in the years to come. Games that don't get pushed into the next generation could become exceptionally hard to get a hold of, and digital ports aren't always enough. Digital game services going down could take with them heaps of games that didn't make the generational leap (remember the Wii Shop closing?).

So what would the justification be for leaving the feature out of a new console in the first place? Put bluntly, it would be greed. Leaving it out ensures re-releasing games and marketing them as remasters will be an easy way to make money without the strenuous work of actually developing new games. But that's always going to happen: despite offering backwards compatibility, the Xbox One still has hosts of games from the 360 ported on new discs as "premium", "legendary", and a host of other adjective-editions in their catalogue. So it's not like offering it prevents anyo♈ne from releasing next-gen versions of the same games.

It's time we recognize that we should expect this functionalit🍸y from gaming companies rather than commend them for it. Hopefully, the trend will continue even past this upcoming generation.

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