Nice putting words in my mouth. I never said the process is easy nor did I say that Xbox 360 and X1 aren't different.
If you go back and read my post, you'll see I was criticizing the fact that publishers get to decide everything when it comes to BC.
But if you want to argue some made up tangent, go right ahead.
Yes, you were critiquing publishers controlling the flow of information and state of releases. But you also stated, flat out, multiple times, that backwards compatibility should be a "right". Bringing up the technical and legal intricacies of software-based backwards compatibility of games upwards of a decade old (or older) on a significantly different platform isn't a made up tangent in the light of that repeated statement.
No words were put in your mouth. I was merely pointing out why the conclusion of your criticism is ridiculous.
And now you see why I mentioned PC. It doesn't have to deal with problems like these which lets users carry over their purchases. That's why I have long criticized the sporadic changing of the console platform architecture and software.
And yet still in the end it's bad comparison since regardless of whether or not it should be the case, the situation between PCs and cross-generational console hardware is wildly different. There's no point in bringing one up if the fact of the matter is they're different and nothing can change that now.
Often? You clearly don't know much about PC.
Low profile release 15-20 years ago? It's telling when you have to go all the way back to small games from the late 90s/early 2000s as a good example of "often cases".
And no, most games from the 360 era work just fine. I would know, I have several.
I imagine much of this, such as what exactly "often" and "many" and "some" mean in the grand scheme, will become an argument of semantics, so I'll drop the specifics of that plotline now simply to avoid it.
I will say though that it was quite clear though that the point of that section of my post was to illuminate edge cases to,
as I said, point out that while PC is obviously inherently conducive to backwards compatibility, it's still not a magical guaranteed protected right that grants you full and permanent use of all of your software always and forever. Even on the
absolute ideal platform for backwards compatibility,
sometimes testing and patches are necessary to fix issues on new hardware/OSes, and
sometimes it takes a while, and
sometimes it never (officially) happens, especially for progressively older software.
So when even the paragon of compatibility can't guarantee compatibility in a situation not even comparable to consoles to begin with, your multiple-time conclusion that BC is a "right" is silly.
Valid criticism is nonsense? Pls stop with the melodramatics.
Oh come on.
