10 PlayStation Problems Sony Want You To Forget
6. Making Us Pay For Backwards Compatibility
After the calamity that was the Xbox One release and the backlash Microsoft faced from fans, you would have thought Sony learned a lesson about stretching the goodwill of their fan base.
Unfortunately, big business sees nostalgia as something to be exploited ruthlessly for financial gain, and Sony is no different.
A business that truly cares about their customers would make their old catalogue available for modern players. After all, these games have made their money and the consoles they ran on are dead.
Both the PS1 and PS2 boast immense catalogues of stellar games that fans would love to delve back in to. Sony has instead invested their time in to figuring out how to drip another drop of blood from their customers.
Sony decided to instead make fans fork out for another subscription service on top of the all the other ones they already have. PlayStation Now was also online only for far too long, meaning that games had to be streamed - a nightmare for those with poor internet.
The only other option is to purchase the games on the PlayStation store at a ridiculous mark-up, and that does not include games from the PS1 or the PS3, meaning vast swathes of the Sony catalogue are unplayable.