Backwards compatibility is not a gimmick. It's necessary in the current console market. In the past year, my PS2 has played the following PSone games: Final Fantasy 8,Breath of Fire 3, Metal Gear Solid, Vandal Hearts, Suikoden, and Lunar 1 & Lunar 2. They weren't for simple nostalgia, but because the games were fun, and I hadn't played them all.
In the next set of consoles that will be coming out, I'm gonna personally buy the system that plays the games I currently have and the ones that I will want.That system could be Nintendo's, Microsoft's, or Sony's, which ever system does it.
Where I am, in Atlantic Canada, the NGage didn't seem to even appear on the map, so basically the only portables that seem to matter are the ones that the big guys produce. Ie, Nintendo, Sony, and in previous years Sega. On another note, I think the Sega Nomad was a great idea, that just didn't seem to take off.
It's been awhile since we've had a new portable console that wasn't from Nintendo. So I think I'll at least check it out, Sony has not let me down since the playstation came out. Where as Nintendo really disapointed me with the N64, which I thought was pure crap, and I havn't looked back since.
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Backwards compatibility is not a gimmick. It's necessary in the current console market. In the past year, my PS2 has played the following PSone games: Final Fantasy 8,Breath of Fire 3, Metal Gear Solid, Vandal Hearts, Suikoden, and Lunar 1 & Lunar 2. They weren't for simple nostalgia, but because the games were fun, and I hadn't played them all.
In the next set of consoles that will be coming out, I'm gonna personally buy the system that plays the games I currently have and the ones that I will want.That system could be Nintendo's, Microsoft's, or Sony's, which ever system does it.
Where I am, in Atlantic Canada, the NGage didn't seem to even appear on the map, so basically the only portables that seem to matter are the ones that the big guys produce. Ie, Nintendo, Sony, and in previous years Sega. On another note, I think the Sega Nomad was a great idea, that just didn't seem to take off.
It's been awhile since we've had a new portable console that wasn't from Nintendo. So I think I'll at least check it out, Sony has not let me down since the playstation came out. Where as Nintendo really disapointed me with the N64, which I thought was pure crap, and I havn't looked back since.