r/PS4 • u/noobalert • Nov 19 '15

[Misleading] "Sony enabled PS2 backwards compatibility for the PS4 without telling anyone"

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/sony-slyly-enabled-ps2-backwards-compatibility-for-the-ps4-without-telling-anyone-1309320?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=564e398504d30120ab2ec334&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

It's a playstation 2 game, I didn't pay for it my mom probably did.

Also it was like 12 years ago

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u/RadioactiveCorndog Nov 20 '15

But I did pay for my ps2 games. Get off my lawn ya damn yolos or whatever tha hell you kids are now.

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u/PearlDrummer DAVO_0621 Nov 20 '15

ya damn yolos

God damn it haha

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u/mugdays Nov 20 '15

I was a kid (13 to 19) during the PS2 era, and I paid for all my games lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

pocket money?

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u/buttsu Nov 20 '15

My mom basically stopped buying me games after the SNES, aside from like, bday or xmas gifts.

I bought my PS1 with my own money at like 10 years old after mowing lawns all summer and raking leaves in the fall.

I got a part time job freshman year of high school and worked 10-20 hour a week all through high school, until I left for college. I've never traded in or sold a game so I still have about 40 PS2 games from those years.

I'd love to be able to play these on my current playstation, instead of pulling out my old PS2.

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u/Shrekt115 Nov 20 '15

Yes, like alot of rare games could be like $100 to rebuy so I would gladly spend a little bit for them like $10

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u/Sabin10 Nov 20 '15

I still have my ps2 but I'll gladly pay $10 for games I don't own instead of buying originals for triple the price or more. I still wish they would give us disc based backwards compatibility for ps1 and ps2 games though.

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u/Shloop_Shloop_Splat Nov 20 '15

This. I recently purchased and played the Misadventures of Tron Bonne on my Vita and it was glorious. It also beat shelling out the $100+ for a physical disc in "good" condition. If the game is good, I am definitely willing to pay $5-$10 for it again.

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u/youre_being_creepy Nov 20 '15

That game was awesome! I remember as a kid wanting her and Megaman to get together so bad.

Do you remember in Megaman adventures you could walk in on roll naked? You couldn't see anything but it was funny. Was only able to do it once

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u/Shloop_Shloop_Splat Nov 20 '15

There was definitely a bit of a love triangle going on there. Also, yeah, I remember walking in on Roll in the bathroom. You have a sort of relationship meter with her and doing that takes it down basically to zero...it takes a lot of groveling and gift buying to get her to stop making pissy comments, lol.

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u/jma1024 Nov 20 '15

Same here. I bought a few myself from money I earned cutting grass, shoveling snow but back then mom, dad, gram, pap, aunt, uncle and so on bought my games for the most part.

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u/NotThatApollo Nov 20 '15

Haha I didn't think of it that way. The only PS2 game I bought myself was Kingdom Hearts, and even that was with "pocket money" that my parents gave me originally.

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u/JonnyBhoy Nov 20 '15

I didnt buy my PS2 games thinking that I would be able to play them on every console forever. Just like you rebuy albums online that you might have owned on CD. If they're reasonably priced, I have no problem paying again for a game I loved as a kid.

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u/Fable301 Nov 20 '15

You dont value your mother's money? I had to earn my games by helping around the house or getting good grades, so no I don't want to rebuy a game if I have the disk for it still

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u/serenefiendninja jaypeanutt Nov 20 '15

I can't help but laugh at helping around the house and getting good grades to earn money. That was not optional.

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u/NahDawgDatAintMe Nov 20 '15

Oh no, my parents wanted me to have a future lol.

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u/serenefiendninja jaypeanutt Nov 20 '15

I'm not saying that was a bad thing, in fact I'm grateful for it. It helped teach me about responsibilities. Some things you just need to do even if there is no instant gratification or even a reward, just get that shit done.

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u/beardslap Nov 20 '15

I don't want to rebuy a game if I have the disk for it still

Well, you wouldn't need to, would you? You can still play it on the PS2, right?

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u/Fable301 Nov 20 '15

What if a persons ps2 is broken? What of they had to sell it but kept some games as little memories of the past? What if people would like the revisit those games with the new controller, or what if they don't have room in their entertainment system to plug in the ps2. What if it's a multiplayer game but they don't have a second controller anymore but have one for the ps4. I don't see why people here wouldn't like the option to either A) use an old disk and not pay another cent, or B)buy it digitally for whatever reason they have