Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

Post by Jerrrry » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 6:40 PM UTC

fiskfiskfisk wrote: post #35

kuu wrote: post #5

The forced obsolescence of consoles is amazing. Now the new generation is advertising as one of their major achievements the retro-compatibility with the previous generation games, but what about PS3 or 360 games? Don't worry, you will have the option to pay again for the same game, maybe with new textures (but maybe not). At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

There's a pretty good list of backwards compatible 360 games that can be played on the modern Xbox consoles. Microsoft did the work in this case. Since it's different architectures there's a bit of work involved in making sure the compatibility layer works as expected. It's a technical achievement that they've been able to do it as good as this. There's also OG Xbox games available with a compatibility layer as well.…

Post by danbolt » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #84

fiskfiskfisk wrote: post #35

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There's a pretty good list of backwards compatible 360 games that can be played on the modern Xbox consoles. Microsoft did the work in this case. Since it's different architectures there's a bit of work involved in making sure the compatibility layer works as expected. It's a technical achievement that they've been able to do it as good as this. There's also OG Xbox games available with a compatibility layer as well.…

It's actually amazing that Microsoft: - Paid developers to emulate a Pentium III (original xbox) on a PowerPC (360) in the first place - Subsequently paid developers to do the effective opposite - emulate PowerPC (360) on x86 (one, series) Also consider it's far easier to emulate an original xbox on a one/series than it was on a 360

Post by nix23 » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

dmonitor wrote: post #139

nix23 wrote: post #131

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>Playing one DOS game. ?? No with dos-box you can nearly play all of them. It's just one emulator but then you have also NES SNES GB SGB Saturn Wii PS1/2/3 PSP Wine Atari Commodore etc...

Dolphin emulator is the 8th wonder of the world

Post by bdowling » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 11:49 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #97

mothsonasloth wrote: post #85

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It's alarmism/sensationalism/outrage journalism 101 See a recent issue, jump to conclusions, publish article, then request comment from the person/organisation who caused the outrage Profit $$$

outrage journalism 101 I think you're being too generous here. It's not even journalism. This is a web site set up just for this, it's not a journalistic publication. It's one guy making money off of other people's outrage. I'd call it blogspam, but this guy doesn't even have a blog.

Post by fomine3 » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 7:07 AM UTC

vultour wrote: post #65

kuu wrote: post #5

The forced obsolescence of consoles is amazing. Now the new generation is advertising as one of their major achievements the retro-compatibility with the previous generation games, but what about PS3 or 360 games? Don't worry, you will have the option to pay again for the same game, maybe with new textures (but maybe not). At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

I don’t think I’ll ever understand people that buy consoles, especially for FPS games. The controls are terrible, the FPS is terrible, the display is probably terrible if they’re using a TV, and the number one reason I will never understand: paying money if you want to play multiplayer. So you’ve already paid money for the console, you paid an exorbitant price for a game that is rarely on sale, and now you have to pa…