After disappointing consumers by reneging on their promise of totally reliable backwards compatibility on the PS3, the firm had seemingly pulled a minor victory from the jaws of self-constructed defeat by providing software BC in its European models which was actually, really, rather good.

Now, however, the company has decided that after spending months convincing us all that software backwards compatibility was genuinely good enough to satisfy the vast majority of consumers, what we’ve really wanted all along is no backwards compatibility at all. Sony now considers backwards compatibility to be a luxury feature - something consumers should be willing to pay additional money for.

Source: GamesIndustry

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