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how important is backwards compatability to you?

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Old 08-16-01 | 10:18 AM
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how important is backwards compatability to you?

just curious - inspired mainly by the "why gamecube will fail" thread
for me, it's not important, when i bought my ps2, there wer only a handful of games i played on ps1. but being that i already had a ps1, i wasn't overly concerned - my opinion is that it's a nice feature to have, but it won't dictate whether or not i buy a system
Old 08-16-01 | 10:25 AM
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it's pretty important to me.
Old 08-16-01 | 10:26 AM
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It's convenient for handhelds I guess, but I don't buy a new system to play games that came out 5 years ago.
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Well, for me, it was fairly important. I had one of the first (if not THE first) models of PS1 and by the time PS2 rolled around, my PS1 was a mess. I had to mess with the wires a ton just to get it to work. I'm still using the backwards compatibility in playing FF6 and later going to play Chrono Trigger.
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I remember being excited that my 7800 would play my 42 2600 games .
Old 08-19-01 | 03:26 PM
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Depends on the cost and bulk that it adds to the system. In the case of the PS2, I doubt it added much cost to the units, so it makes sense. It doesn't really matter to me, though, since I still have all my old systems.

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