Which Company Handles Backward Capatability Better?

[Euan]

I would say Sony deal with backwards compatability pretty well as they have provided the service with the PS2 and are promising the same with the PS3. That's an 100% record.

we're not talking about what they did in the past, we're talking about now.

nintendo is offering ALL the games they have ever made, which is way more games and way better quality than sony

[jjgamepro17]

Yeah but still, the Playstation 3 will play all of your previous Playsation games not download them. So im gonna go with the Playstation 3, but im still getting the Nintendo Revolution.

If you want to go literal here, we should just discount the PS3 and Rev altogether, since they aren't out yet. See, it said "handles," not "handled" or "will handle." So we're speaking present-tense here. And, presently, the only next-gen system out is the 360 (and it doesn't "handle" BC very well). Presently, the GameCube doesn't have any BC (for obvious reasons), but the GBA does (the original/SP anyway) and it does it very well. The PlayStation 2 is out and it does a good job of BC too. And, well, the Xbox is the first, so it doesn't have anything the be BC with. So, for all intents and purposes, only Nintendo and Sony are handling backwards compatibility well (with Nintendo probably taking the lead because of such a large library of GB/C/GBA games playable on the Game Boy Advance).

However, since he said "company," that encompasses all products manufactured by the company (presently). So, then, Nintendo probably wins this argument (although Sony is quite close).

[bignds]

17R3W has the right idea here, and Dsdude, we're not talking quality, just which company handles it better, and thus far its been sony, remember, with the Revo, its only been on one occasion where a nintendo home console is backward compatible.

Some people are just being ignorant just going forward and voting Nintendo because sony are 'teh 3v1L'. We are judging this on what theyve put out and wheather theyve handled it well with that platform, fact is, Sony have 100% record with BC and theyve done it when ever they can. You can only vote the better company if they seized the opptunity when ever they can. The only real excuse for not having BC is if its the the companys first entry into the console/handheld market or if its using an entirely different format (but the DS proved this theory wrong, by having two different game formats, the DS card and the GBA game pak, so really, you can only use the former as a valid excuse).

[jjgamepro17]

Yeah and that only time with nintendo is the Nintendo ds

"Quality" and "how they handle it" are the exact same thing. If they handle it well, the quality of the backwards compatibility is excellent. If handled poorly (360), then the backwards compatibility is sub-par. Nintendo has handled it just as well as Sony has, but with the GBA. Big difference, yes, but that doesn't change the fact that they "handled it" exceptionally well. Truth be told, however, Sony's approach is probably more well-known and works better in practice (from my experience).

[nmaster64]

Everyone's just copying Nintendo as usual. The Game Boy did it before Sony and MS were even in the market, and the Revolution's ultimate BC pwns anything anyone else has even thought of.

Anyone who says anything other than Nintendo deserves a one-way ticket to retard land.

[bignds]

Your oblivious to the fact, just because Nintendo did it first doesnt neccessarily mean they did it best. I agree the Revo will be 'THE ULTIMATE' but untill then, it lies with Sony.

The way i see this argument, we're judging on what we have experience(the main public). I keep saying this but its about seizing the opputunity to do BC with their console, where they can and pulling it off well, and Sonys record is the best with that. Its looking at this way, none of Nintendos home consoles, where theyve had the chance (theyve had a chance to do this on 3 occasions) have used BC, sony have a 100% record here. Nintendo HAVE seized this chance when ever they can in the handheld division, theyve made three of their handhelds backward compatible, which gives Nintendo a record of 50%/Sony 100%/ Microsoft 100%. So now youve got to look at whos been better quality between Sony and Microsoft, i'll go with Sony, because as ive mentioned above, you have to have a harddrive to play Xbox 1 games and even then, some games wont work. With Sony before, pretty much all PS1 games work with the PS2.

[nmaster64]

Why does Sony's one example of BC beat Nintendo's like 5? I don't know how you think it's fair because Sony has had ONE BC console, that that is better than Nintendo's entire Game Boy/DS line. That's just being ridiculous. Nintendo did it first and they've done it more often, it's a central thing for their handhelds. Limiting the field to only consoles is completely biased considering the question portrayed companies...