TheAdmiester
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MS: "gamers have spent more than 100M total hours playing Backward Compatible games"
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Droopaloop
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I played 3 online matches of Halo Wars, so that probably accounts for the rest.
Yup, that's the rest of them.
Call me nuts but this BC program will definitely be a deciding factor when I eventually buy my first Xbox One (which is when the S or Scorpio releases). I love being able to have some continuity between my old gen collection and the next one.
On the flipside my biggest disappointment with Sony and the PS4 so far has been the severe lack of BC. Why am I able pay more money to buy a 4K/VR enhanced PS4 in the near future but not for a fully hardware (PS3) BC enabled PS4? And why no software BC program either, not even for PSN games?
Even if Microsoft's approach is mostly based on fictional customer demand and bloated data - which I doubt by the way - Sony could try to follow suit to appease all of their customer's wishes, even if they might in be in the minority (but then again who wouldn't play one or two of their old PS3 games if natively possible?). It would be a nice loyalty program type reward for those of us who supported the PS brand last gen as well.
Mini rant over.
On the flipside my biggest disappointment with Sony and the PS4 so far has been the severe lack of BC. Why am I able pay more money to buy a 4K/VR enhanced PS4 in the near future but not for a fully hardware (PS3) BC enabled PS4? And why no software BC program either, not even for PSN games?
Even if Microsoft's approach is mostly based on fictional customer demand and bloated data - which I doubt by the way - Sony could try to follow suit to appease all of their customer's wishes, even if they might in be in the minority (but then again who wouldn't play one or two of their old PS3 games if natively possible?). It would be a nice loyalty program type reward for those of us who supported the PS brand last gen as well.
Mini rant over.
Are games with variable framerate any better?
I know 50 hours seems like nothing on gaming forums but for many people that is pretty close to the total amount of time they spend gaming all year.
MilkyJoe
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I've seen it all now... Jeepers.
Arby 'n' the Chief
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and over 100 of those hours are mine 
Doctor_Thomas
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Sorry, is that statement incorrect in any capacity?
People have, a few times, called out Sony for being the only one to charge you to play old games. I'm making the point that it's not free games, it's just another way to play games on a different platform. You still have to, at some point, actually have bought the game in question.
EightBitNate
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For the most part, yeah. Some games, however, run worse. The Gears games come to mind.
No. People argue(d) that you have to buy a game again, although you already own them.
With Sony and Nintendo you have to buy them AGAIN to keep playing them. Is it that complicated to understand? Yes, I bought Mass Effect and can play it on my Xbone. I bought it like 8 years ago though and have already long since gotten that value. This is a bonus.
Meanwhile, I ALSO own many PS2 games, if I want to play those again I either have to fish out a working PS2 (LOL fun, since mine all have busted disc drives now) or pay sony for the priviledge of playing something I already own on my PS4.
This is quite me. I still didn't buy a next gen system but I "heavily" invested into the 360 and sometimes still buy a game when it's on sale. I also bought most games on 360 digitally and am subscribed to XBL since day one and as there are still free games to get with XBL, now even with all games being compatible with Xbox One, when I buy an Xbox with EA Access, I will have to buy the console, subscribe additionally to XBL to EA Access and already have a huge library directly available to play, conveniently on one console.
MilkyJoe
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Buy AGAIN
Xbone BC you can buy it having never owned it, but if you own it you don't pay AGAIN.
What is so hard to understand?
You don't even need XBL for your 360 games from GWG, if you've had them ever you're good.
Doctor_Thomas
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MilkyJoe
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I did, doesn't change Jack about your post
I have and that was a reply to your first post I also already replied to.
I look forward to the stats on Red Dead. I really hope they share individual stats for the number of players and the number of sales (digitally).
I'm thinking there's no way to successfully track Amazon and all the other sales (without #'s from all the retailers).
It's possible we will only get hours again in the near future, but I'd love a breakdown of what I'd consider a big BC (re)release.
I'm thinking there's no way to successfully track Amazon and all the other sales (without #'s from all the retailers).
It's possible we will only get hours again in the near future, but I'd love a breakdown of what I'd consider a big BC (re)release.
I don't think we will get stats, tbh. Only after major events and probably also just as a sidenote like in this case.
The most telling stats were the active player numbers on Black Ops right after Black Ops became backwards compatible.
I'm curious what those numbers were like say, a week after it became BC
Well its still around 30k now.
So it's 5x times more than it was before? Mighty impressive bump. But for context, how does that compare to other competitive online games? Just curious.
No, that would be 15 million hours. There's two lots of 30 minutes in an hour.
Maths?!
Fox Mulder
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It's a neat feature that widens the library and gives the console another bullet point while it loses some things like true first/third party exclusives.
I've enjoyed it and will enjoy it more as they keep adding titles I've wanted to play again.
I like MS doing things like this and a $150 controller.
I've enjoyed it and will enjoy it more as they keep adding titles I've wanted to play again.
I like MS doing things like this and a $150 controller.
You wrongly assume that "most" even need to care to make it a profitable feature. BC will become the standard going forward because of the architectures involved IMO. I would be shocked if the PS5 does not have BC with PS4 games.
I figure MS and Sony will figure out how to make it profitable.
I say BS. Offering BC means fewer people will have reluctance to transition to a new console. That also means that everyone in the production chain can transition away from multiplat titles more quickly in the future. That = cost savings.
MilHombreLobo
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Lol!
If 1 million people had $0.50c each that equals $15,000,000.00 because there are two lots of $0.50 in a dollar!!!!!
johnnydrama
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This thread is fucking embarrassing.
You could at least leave a thanks to Ieeh for giving you a number.