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The gaming library is starting to be scarce .... at one point when you
finished a game .. you kept it in your gaming library (likely playing on
rare occasion) because this was your only option ....
Today, game retailers are willing to buy games back ... and boy to people
finish a game and sell it back to the retailer to buy the next latest,
greatest ....
The_Rock
"NightSky 421" <nightsky421@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> "Andrew Ryan Chang" <archang@sfu.ca> wrote in message
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> >
> > I think backwards compatibility is rarely used, but widely valued.
> > In other words, a lot of people place a lot higher value on it than what
> > it's really worth to them.
> >
>
>
> Backwards compatibility is definitely important in the short term, at
least
> the first 12 to 18 months. A lot of people have a fair bit of money
> invested in their games collection and while they will eventually become
> bored of their old games and stop playing them, it's usually asking a lot
> for someone to suddenly give up a gaming library. I remember back in 1991
> when I finally moved from my Atari 8-bit computer to a PC, specifically a
> 386SX-16. In making the switch over to a whole new platform like that, I
> suddenly found myself going from having a lot of games for my old Atari to
> having none at all for my then-new PC. As such, I kept my Atari hanging
> around for the first while because that's where all of my games were. Of
> course, nothing said I had to give up my Atari right away because I got a
> PC, but it's nice from a space standpoint having one platform running
rather
> than two. Which leads me to my next point...
>
> For a lot of folks, it's no problem having more than one console hanging
> around, but it's admittedly nice to have one unit that can play your old
> games and take advantage of the new platform. As much as I hate Sony as a
> company, I do give them credit for ensuring that Playstation 1 games
worked
> in the Playstation 2. Given that claims have been made about the Xbox 360
> having the power of 14 original Xbox's, I have to wonder if emulation of
> some sort would be the way backwards compatibility would work. However,
the
> fact that Microsoft has not spilled the beans about backwards
compatibility
> suggests to me that they are having a lot of trouble doing it, or they are
> trying to gloss things over because it won't happen at all. I don't think
> they wanted anything really negative to be mentioned about the Xbox 360
when
> they revealed what it looks like.
>
>