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Little Rant
Topic Started: Dec 26 2010, 04:30 PM (578 Views)
GZKane
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Today I went to a value village. The first thing I always do when I go to thrift stores, is head to the electronic/gaming section. So I checked out what games they had but was disappointed by the shitty selection so i moved on the console area and saw 5 ps1s there. i started thinking what a waste of a console and how no one is going to buy them since the ps2 and ps3 both got backwards compatible. It makes me angry to see stuff like that go to waste and just sit there and collect dust.

Thats the only thing that pisses me off about consoles being backwards compatible. With the newer systems like the Wii and PS3 being able to play the older games it just makes a flood of gamecubes and ps1 to rot on thrift and game stores shelves.

well thats my little rant. so what do my fellow gamers think about that?

Bonus Rant: I hate when I buy a game and discover that there are 2 manuals. one in english and one in french. Why cant they just make one manual with both languages? im tired of hucking the french booklet in a box in my closet. what a waste of paper.
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All the better for collectors who happen upon the used consoles. Oh, and wouldn't it take the same amount of paper to make one manual with both languages?
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1) If new consoles didnt have backwards compatibility then people would upgrade and possibly throw away all their old games, thus causing more waste

2) 2 regular sized manuals and 1 very large manual would take approximately the same amount of paper

Edited by XxKomebackKidxX, Dec 28 2010, 06:37 PM.
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Backwards compatibility is important for current gen consoles and it's a benefit to anyone who never owned the original system and doesn't want to pay extra for it. My PS3 is the slim model that is not backwards compatible with PS2 but it fortunately will play my library of PS1 games. Sorry, but I have limited space and I can't have every console hooked up. Having "all in one" solutions is fantastic.

As for the manuals, it's hit and miss since some include both English and French instructions together in one manual and some are separated. It takes up the same amount of room, but at least with the separated ones you can toss the French manual into the recycling bin. I've seen some of the manuals in the US, especially with handheld consoles like the DSi; it's like a phone book with all of the different languages covered!
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Backwards compatibility is huge. It also helps bring life to people who are new to a console such as a 360 who never had an xbox allowing them to experience both systems.

I wish my ps3 was ps2 compatible. It is kind of annoying to have my ps2 plugged in and take space when a single ps3 could do the job of 3 systems not to mention the upward scaling and such.

It doesn't just work with consoles, but with pretty much every technology.
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I personally don't mind the manual part at all. I love systems being backwards compatible because I'm a gamer, not a collector. Let us be honest here, there are more gamers than collectors. If people who don't collect or have a certain console such as the Gamecube want to play games on that certain console but don't have it can play on the newer consoles or in this case, the Wii. It makes things a lot easier for the consumers. You can't blame businesses such as Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo for doing this because it attracts more consumers to buy their consoles.
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wards compatibility is win win. There's more Ps1's and 2's and Gamecubes around for the people that would enjoy and appreciate owning one, and at the same time, people that want a few older games can just buy them and not worry about hunting down an older system and paying a lot for maybe just a handful of games they wanna play.
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Older systems aren't totally worthless. Some accessories don't work on the newer backwards-compatible systems. For instance, the Gameboy Advance Player for the Gamecube can't be used on the Wii. So you'd need to keep your Gamecube around to use that accessory, and it's a very good one too.

I have my Gamecube and Wii connected to the same TV. I don't like connecting my Gamecube controllers to my Wii, because while it's vertical (only way I can get it to fit in its tiny space), I don't like how the Gamecube controllers go in. It's just ackward and gets in the way. Also, the Gamecube controller would get in the way of the slot drive. Gamecube takes up little space too, so I just keep it connected.

PS1 isn't totally worthless either. Not all PS1 games worked completely perfectly on the PS2. I don't know if those same games or others have problems on PS3s though. But I remember a list of a 100 or so PS1 games that didn't work right on the PS2 many years ago when it was released. I remember one of my PS1 Atari compilation discs kept auto-pausing every few minutes when I played it on my PS2, so I'd only play it on my PS1. And this game wasn't even on that list of incompatible ones. So in other words, a whole lot of other games might've had problems and not worked right on the PS2, too.

So, backwards compatibility doesn't always mean accessories compatible, and that can be important too. Also, some times it can be inconvenient to use old controllers on newer systems for some of us. And not all games play perfectly on newer systems. PS2 had problems with some PS1 games, etc. Also, my PS3 is backwards compatible with PS2, but a lot of PS2 games have problems on it, so I keep my PS2 hooked up too.
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I loved backwards compatibility, and wish everything I bought new had some for of it. Bought a new toaster? Backwards compatability!!! You can put soup in it. WAHEY! :D

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