If you’re like me, you’ll agree that removing backwards compatibility from the PS3 for no reason was a dumb, irritating move. Just before the PS3 Slim was announced, a number of people had hoped that BC news was also coming, but nothing happened. Now Sony’s John Koller hasdecided to state, quite emphatically, that it’snevergoing to happen. Yeah? Well f*ck you too, guys!
“It’s not coming back, so let me put that on the table,” Koller states. “It’s not as big as [sic] a purchase intent driver as you may be hearing. We’ve got such a substantial lineup of titles on the PS3; most people are buying the PS3 for PS3 games. They’ve [sic] buying it for PS3 games and Blu-ray movies.
“That won’t be returning.”
I would hope that most peoplearebuying the PS3 for PS3 games — that’s not exactly something to be proud of. Was including BC in the PS3 really that expensive? Considering how cheap PS3 production has become, I really don’t see why it would have been that big of a deal to keep the ability to play PS2 games. Something about consumer convenience and, y’know, not being a complete and utter tool of a company.
Well, at least Sony’s been good enough to tell us they’re never going to stop being dicks about it. The dicks.
