If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

[Pared]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

Why would you keep an old pc when it can't run the newer games and any games it can run would look terrible in comparison? It's pointless to spend time and resources investing in backwards compatablity when you can just keep the old systems. Plenty of people keep old atari's and nintendo's, why not keep the old xbox or ps2?

You just proved my point.

They keep the old system b/c there isn't a new one that is BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE. If a system can do all the things your old system can AND MORE, why keep it around?? Should I keep a CD Player around if I buy the same exact thing but with the ability to play DVD's AND CD's?

Did you even think about what you were typing before you posted that?

[jmood88]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

You just proved my point.

They keep the old system b/c there isn't a new one that is BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE. If a system can do all the things your old system can AND MORE, why keep it around?? Should I keep a CD Player around if I buy the same exact thing but with the ability to play DVD's AND CD's?

Did you even think about what you were typing before you posted that?

No I am not proving your point. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with having backwards compatablity. What I wanted to know is why it's such a big deal to have it when you can keep your old system. If you have something that can play both then you don't need to keep the old one around but if you have one that doesn't have backwards compatibility then it isn't a problem at all since you can just play your old stuff on the old system. The poster that I was replying to said that he would have to get rid of all of his games if a new system came out that wasn't backwards compatible but he wouldn't need to get rid of the games. All he would have to do is keep the old system.

[jmood88]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

You just proved my point.

They keep the old system b/c there isn't a new one that is BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE. If a system can do all the things your old system can AND MORE, why keep it around?? Should I keep a CD Player around if I buy the same exact thing but with the ability to play DVD's AND CD's?

Did you even think about what you were typing before you posted that?

No I am not proving your point. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with having backwards compatablity. What I wanted to know is why it's such a big deal to have it when you can keep your old system. If you have something that can play both then you don't need to keep the old one around but if you have one that doesn't have backwards compatibility then it isn't a problem at all since you can just play your old stuff on the old system. The poster that I was replying to said that he would have to get rid of all of his games if a new system came out that wasn't backwards compatible but he wouldn't need to get rid of the games. All he would have to do is keep the old system.

[Pared]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

No I am not proving your point. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with having backwards compatablity. What I wanted to know is why it's such a big deal to have it when you can keep your old system. If you have something that can play both then you don't need to keep the old one around but if you have one that doesn't have backwards compatibility then it isn't a problem at all since you can just play your old stuff on the old system. The poster that I was replying to said that he would have to get rid of all of his games if a new system came out that wasn't backwards compatible but he wouldn't need to get rid of the games. All he would have to do is keep the old system.

But that's HIS VIEWPOINT. He views game systems the same way someone views a walkman or disc player. Time passes on, people upgrade and want their upgrade to be an all inclusive solution.

Do you honestly feel people won't be more inclined to purchase a new system that plays what they have and DOES MORE, to eventually replace their old one?

THINK ABOUT IT.

[Pared]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

No I am not proving your point. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with having backwards compatablity. What I wanted to know is why it's such a big deal to have it when you can keep your old system. If you have something that can play both then you don't need to keep the old one around but if you have one that doesn't have backwards compatibility then it isn't a problem at all since you can just play your old stuff on the old system. The poster that I was replying to said that he would have to get rid of all of his games if a new system came out that wasn't backwards compatible but he wouldn't need to get rid of the games. All he would have to do is keep the old system.

But that's HIS VIEWPOINT. He views game systems the same way someone views a walkman or disc player. Time passes on, people upgrade and want their upgrade to be an all inclusive solution.

Do you honestly feel people won't be more inclined to purchase a new system that plays what they have and DOES MORE, to eventually replace their old one?

THINK ABOUT IT.

[jmood88]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

But that's HIS VIEWPOINT. He views game systems the same way someone views a walkman or disc player. Time passes on, people upgrade and want their upgrade to be an all inclusive solution.

Do you honestly feel people won't be more inclined to purchase a new system that plays what they have and DOES MORE, to eventually replace their old one?

THINK ABOUT IT.

All I did was ask him a question, you are the one trying to turn it into an argument. If people have a choice then they will probably take the one that plays the old game and does more but if that isn't an option then that shouldn't be the basis for purchasing. That's all my opinion of course.

[jmood88]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

But that's HIS VIEWPOINT. He views game systems the same way someone views a walkman or disc player. Time passes on, people upgrade and want their upgrade to be an all inclusive solution.

Do you honestly feel people won't be more inclined to purchase a new system that plays what they have and DOES MORE, to eventually replace their old one?

THINK ABOUT IT.

All I did was ask him a question, you are the one trying to turn it into an argument. If people have a choice then they will probably take the one that plays the old game and does more but if that isn't an option then that shouldn't be the basis for purchasing. That's all my opinion of course.

[Pared]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

No argument at all.

And stop trying to contact me via MSN.

[Pared]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

No argument at all.

And stop trying to contact me via MSN.

[jmood88]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

No argument at all.

And stop trying to contact me via MSN.

Stop trying to start flamewars with me.

[jmood88]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

No argument at all.

And stop trying to contact me via MSN.

Stop trying to start flamewars with me.

[Pared]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

[Pared]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

[jmood88]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

Is that supposed to mean something? I wasn't talking to you but yet again you decide that you need to say something to me. I was asking him a question, not you.

[jmood88]

Re: If they offered you a free next-gen console right now...

Is that supposed to mean something? I wasn't talking to you but yet again you decide that you need to say something to me. I was asking him a question, not you.