It’s a shame that there is no great way to catch up on the ratchet and clank series for new players.

its a shame sony dont care about backward compatibility like microsoft does..

I despise this line of thinking. Microsoft cares about MONEY, and so does Sony. Have you not noticed the only BC titles older than xbox one are the ones you can buy on their store? The Xbox One is perfectly capable to emulate most if not all Xbox and Xbox 360 games.

If Sony had an easy way to build a PS3 emulator and license the games for sale on PS4/5 you can bet your ass they'd do it. In fact, they do. You can buy some PS2 games on PS4. But basically for PS1/2 games it's a licensing nightmare because they have to relicense the game for sale on a digital store as well as any other regulatory issues that are probably too numerous to count; and for PS3 games it's basically impossible to emulate the PS3's CELL processor. Another issue is I think the PSN requires games to have trophy support so they have to build trophy support for PS2 games in order to put them on the store.

Microsoft has a huge advantage in that they are a software company and that has impacted their console design, xbox consoles are built with more hardware abstraction which allows for easier emulation down the line, while Sony has always had a "let the developers code down to the metal" approach.

If anything I'd argue Sony put MORE work into Backwards Compatibility for PS4 games on PS5, because where Microsoft relies on DirectX to do the grunt of the work, Sony had to engineer a CPU/GPU that can do 1:1 hardware emulation of the PS4 CPU/GPU.

Microsoft's approach has as many upsides has it has downsides. It can make it harder for developers to take full advantage of the hardware but it makes it easier to support software enhancements like FPS Boost and port games to other platforms.

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