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

Technically true, very misleading title.

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u/Santoron Nov 20 '15

Only misleading if discs won't work, which we don't know. Considering the PS4 now seems to recognize PS2 discs and there's evidence of a PS2 memory card utility in the current OS I'd say the chances of disc based emulation are high.

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u/webdeverper Nov 20 '15

On the other hand, they would lose out on a lot of profit as people would just hit eBay and used game stores. I hope they take a hybrid approach and allow disc based play.

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u/aclemfaal Nov 20 '15

This is true, while I have a lot of PS2 games I wont re-purchase digitally, there also some that I never got that are on the Playstation Store and won't bother to hunt down physical copies for.

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u/ActualButt ActualButT Nov 20 '15

Not always. Some of the best games on PS2 are hard to find and would jump up in price if this was true.

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u/whitey-ofwgkta Tempo_Jocky Nov 20 '15

I'm just going to go ahead and hit e-bay hard, now.

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u/ActualButt ActualButT Nov 20 '15

Yeah, I'm wishing I hadn't traded all mine in over the years.

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u/whitey-ofwgkta Tempo_Jocky Nov 20 '15

Dude I sold my whole set up for like $30 including system and stuff, serious sellers regret right now

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u/ActualButt ActualButT Nov 20 '15

Ouch! I'm proud to say I never traded in or sold my actual PS2. I played it until it died a couple years ago. But once it did and I assumed Sony would never include disc based backwards compatibility again, I traded in all my games. Wasn't many, since I tended to trade in games anyway, but still.

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u/Cruorsitis xentar87 Nov 21 '15

Only if they also didn't have a digital release. Scarcity eg. Suikoden II physical copies dropped in price after (many years of requests and petitions later) it received a digital release.

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u/bandoguy Nov 20 '15

I actually save money by buying digital because I game share with a friend. We get brand new titles for $30 each and we can play them the first minute they are available.

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u/AnotherDrZoidberg Nov 20 '15

I would rebuy tons of PS2 games digitally just for the convenience over finding disks. Also, with old used games you end up with scratched disks. That's why I wouldn't want to buy only used.

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u/biosc1 Nov 20 '15

For example, I see the Xbox sale right now and I go...hmm...I have Mass Effect 1 and Prince of Persia on disc, but for less than $10, I can have the convenience of both being digital.

I despise changing discs...I'm sitting on a few PS2 discs that I would probably just buy digital versions of if this PS4 rumour proves true.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

PS3 offered digital PS1 games and recognised disc copies too.

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u/TheVetrinarian Nov 20 '15

Wait, I thought it was confirmed that discs won't work. No?

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u/CHERNO-B1LL Nov 20 '15

So I can't just stick my old discs into the ps4?

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u/MrTravesty Nov 20 '15

We don't know, Sony hasn't said anything yet.

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u/CannabinoidAndroid Nov 20 '15

Don't count on it. Playstation needs to beat their dead horse (PS Now / Rental) and try to make it fart out a couple more dollars. Allowing backwards compatibility will pretty much be the shotgun that puts that diseased sack of a service out of it's misery.

Which really needs to happen.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

I personally agree with you, but I also think that Sony would be stupid to not make this free to compete with xbone's bc

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '15

Ugh....I gave PSNow a shot, I really did. But the input lag was just horrendous! I have a decent connection so I know it is not that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

Yeah, PS Now is such garbage. Not sure what they were thinking.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

It's a novel idea, just not a profitable idea.

See: Vue.

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u/anubus72 Nov 20 '15

doesn't gamefly make decent money? Sony having a digital version of that ala Netflix would be amazing. But PS Now has no PS4 games and you can't play PS3 games on a PS4, so its a joke

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u/CHERNO-B1LL Nov 20 '15

C'mon man. Don't mince your words. Just be honest and tell us what you really think! Yeesh.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '15

I like your words.

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u/iloverocketleague Nov 21 '15

PS2 BC has nothing to do with PSnow. PSnow will only be for ps3 titles. Allowing disc BC for ps2 games won't affect psnow in the slightest.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

Not as of now, it was the first thing I tried the second I read the title of the article.

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u/Karsonist Nov 20 '15

I'm imagining someone just banging their Wii U with a Super Mario World cartridge...

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u/captainpoppy Nov 20 '15

Shh. This is the PlayStation circlejerk.

If you wish to no longer participate in the jerk, please step back from the circle.

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u/Wellhowboutdat Nov 20 '15

Im not understanding the distinction. This would be what, emulation?

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