The more I hear about PS2 backward compatibility the more I dislike it
Just heard this morning from a post by Polygon that the PS4 will not support PS2 discs which logically means you'll need a digital copy. How would you get the digital copy though? Most likely you'd have to pay for it... Now why would I pay again for a game I already own rather than just use the original disc, especially since PS2 games are DVDs, PS1 games are CDs and Blu Ray drives have been able to read both since the beginning of time. On top of that, my PC can emulate both using the original discs at 1080p60 minimum (letting it run wild with the framerate makes PS2 games unplayably fast) at 6x the resolution of the PS2 (PS1 games are upscaled to 1080p) rather than the 4x the PS4 will manage. Why can open source free software do better than what the professionals who made the system are proposing to do?
The PS2 and PS3 had this right, but so far, to me, this looking like the wrong way to do it if you want people to actually use it.
With my PS+ expiring tomorrow (and consequently me losing access to my rented PS+ games) and PS2 backward compatibility looking like it may be a bust, I have increasingly fewer reasons to turn this system on. The controller spends more time bound to my PC's bluetooth rather than to the PS4 O_o
What do you make of how they appear to be intending to make emulation work. I could be wrong and they may actually make discs work on it.