10 Reasons Everyone's Giving Up On Next-Gen Consoles
7. They Don't Have Backwards Compatibility
With backwards compatible hardware, the transition from the sixth to seventh generation was much smoother, because practically nothing was lost in the process, aside from the hundreds of dollars in hard-earned cash you spent. For PlayStation 2 owners, buying a PlayStation 3 was just an upgrade because, at the time, there wasn't anything a PS2 could do that a PS3 couldn't. Thus, paying a few hundred dollars for an upgrade made sense, at least back then. This isn't the case with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. If you're attached to your current library of games, buying the new console is going to be harder because you can't trade up, and you have to keep both systems. In fact, the only console to feature backward compatibility is the Wii U, the console that has been failing miserably since the start of the generation. Now, It's understandable that Microsoft and Sony wouldn't do this as well, considering the cost in doing so. However, the least Sony and Microsoft could have done was make the first model backwards compatible, to increase adoption rates. With so few games, wouldn't these new systems have benefited from the addition of the entire library of its predecessor?
Ken was born in 1994, and before the turn of the century, he was already a gamer for life, starting with Pokémon Blue Version. He has a passion for storytelling, especially in the gaming medium. Growing up on a healthy diet of JRPGs and point and click adventure games, young Kenny grew up playing Nintendo and Sony consoles, before becoming a snobby member of the PC Master Race. Nowadays, he resides in a time warp, refusing to believe the nineties ended as he fills up his Steam library with old point and clicks and cRPGs.
