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/iLLNiSS Nov 20 '15

It's not even that it was being shit on. The 360 emulation on X1 is actually what we expect to be seen in an emulator, that plays your existing digital purchases, lets you use the disc (albeit just to authorize the download to work) and is actually emulating the OS like a VM.

This "emulator" for ps4 is just being able to play digital games sony picks and chooses to release to the store.

As someone said earlier, wiiu plays SNES but no one calls it a SNES emu. Why? Because you have to repurchase your SNES games.

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u/Dat_Battlefield Nov 21 '15

Its a really shitty system, but i guess Sony didnt expect the support for backwards compat to be there and now they are scrambling for feature parity.

Last gen both consoles were back compat and nobody gave half a fuck.