Even three years after he said it, there’s a quote from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation’s Jim Ryan that continuously comes back to haunt him. Speaking to in 2017, Ryan was asked about Sony's stance on backwards compatibility. In response, Ryan told the story of how he was recently at a Gran Turismo event, and upon seeing how “ancient” the older games looked, thought to himsel💜f, “why would anybody play this?”
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The intention here appears to be to separate the jab at the older games from Sony’s strategy on backwards compatibility, instead explaining that he was simply pr🐼aising the new Gran Turismo.
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