Sony has recently announced that the PlayStation Vita will support 275 PSP titles at launch. This news made a lot of consumers angry. People are mad due to the fact that they have to repurchase games over again. Consumers are forgetting the essential thing about buying a new gaming system. It has its own games. Baltimore gamers should pick up the Vita to play new titles.
Since when did backwards compatibility become the standard? Most consoles have not had this feature in the past. Super Nintendo did not play NES games. Gamecube did not play N64 games. Sega Saturn did not play Genesis games. The only system this generation to have full backwards compatibility is the Nintendo Wii. The only reason Nintendo’s current system supports GC titles is because there is not much of a hardware difference between the two. Xbox 360 does is not fully backward compatible by any stretch. Even the PS3’s that had BC were not 100 percent. Backwards compatibility is a nice thing to have, but it is not a necessary feature for any next generation system. New systems are bought to play new games. If people have no interest in playing the new games that a next generation platform offers, then why buy the device in the first place? People should play games on the system that they were built for. If someone wants to play PSP games, then he or she should buy a PSP. Other than convenience, there is no real reason for backwards compatibility to exist.
Things are what they are. Companies are starting to move away from backwards compatibility and are moving towards reselling titles to people all over again. Nintendo did it with the Wii-make of some of its Gamecube games, and Sony is doing it with titles that were on the PlayStation 2. Consumers are just going to have to get used to the fact that the hobby of video games is ultimately a business. If no one makes any money, then there will be no games to play.
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