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[EverydayBeast]

How revolutionary was backwards compatibility on PS2 back in 2005 say you? When did the concept become normal, or why wasn't this developed into the N64 with SNES?

 

[Robot Carnival]

it was a pretty big draw if I remember correctly. not the main one of course but PS1 does have a lot of good games after all and this was basically telling people PS2 will start with a deep library of games already for those who didn't get the PS1.

 

[winjer]

Consoles like the Mega Drive and the SNES already had adaptors that allowed to play games from the Game Gear, Master System and NES, respectively.
SO having backwards compatibility wasn't anything new. But it was a welcome feature.

 

[videogamedude]

i thought it was rad... we took for granted it was the actual hardware too... no compatibility patching like today, and everything ran the exact same

 

[PeteBull]

How revolutionary was backwards compatibility on PS2 back in 2005 say you? When did the concept become normal, or why wasn't this developed into the N64 with SNES?

As a launch ps2 owner It was awesome, to a point first year ps2 basically half my playtime was ps1 games, ofc later on with more high quality ps2 games i didnt care much for psx backwards compatibility anymore.

 

[digital_ghost]

It was

 

[kevboard]

Sega had backwards compatibility back in the 8bit and 16bit era.
so not very revolutionary I'd say.

Nintendo of course having back compat for their handhelds.
and Sega even made the GameGear compatible with Master System

 

[ReasonBeing]

Consoles like the Mega Drive and the SNES already had adaptors that allowed to play games from the Game Gear, Master System and NES, respectively.
SO having backwards compatibility wasn't anything new. But it was a welcome feature.

I owned the master system adapter for my Genesis, but what is this adapter for SNES you speak of? Are you referring to the super game boy?

Edit: Atari 7200 was backwards compatible with the 2600. The intellevision had an adapter that made it compatible with 2600 games as well. Cross company compatibility. The PS2 BC was welcomed, but not revolutionary.

 

[ByWatterson]

Game Boy Color and GBA were the actual trendsetters here.

 

[Gitaroo]

was pretty cool back ten when they added texture filter and faster loading, Then Sony can't even both with improving AF for SP4pro, PS5, and PS5 pro ever since which is lame.

 

[Hudo]

It was a neat feature for the Playstation 2 but the PS2 launch games were good enough that no one really seemed to give much of a shit about it. And PS2 was a big fucking jump from the PS1, so much so that people just didn't really want to go back.

But that's just how I observed my friends and classmates behaving.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I remember playing a friends ps1 version of wwf Smackdown on the ps2

 

[Sticks]

I remember playing a friends ps1 version of wwf Smackdown on the ps2

Hear you

 

[Calverz]

How revolutionary was backwards compatibility on PS2 back in 2005 say you? When did the concept become normal, or why wasn't this developed into the N64 with

It felt infuriating, honestly. Growing up on NES and SNES, you just assumed every new Nintendo box would ditch everything that came before it, because that's what they always did. Then Sony strolls in with the PS2 and suddenly your entire PS1 library works flawlessly, instantly, with zero adapters, zero gimmicks, zero "special enhancement paks." It made Nintendo look like they'd been taking the piss for years.