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Re:Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux... by baby on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @04:02PM (#11948972)
forward compatible with a console released 7 years apart?

It shows how different the clientele of Nintendo is, since they change the controllers at every new iteration.

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Re:Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux... by LanceH on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:22PM (#11949925)
For a controller, sure. The current controller has all the buttons the old controller has. They are both USB/bluetooth. Most games need a one or two sticks and the standard buttons. There is no reason they couldn't develop a system to cover a grand total of two controller specs, both of which they created and which probably have a 90+% overlap.

I'll stick to my PC, where every controller works.

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Re:Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux... by SixSigma on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:23PM (#11955916)
> I'll stick to my PC, where every controller works.

Your PC still has a 15 pin gameport and a 9/25 pin serial?

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Re:Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux... by zorked on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @04:33PM (#11949180)
Nintendo does backwards compatibility a lot better than Sony. Consoles have been compatible with the previous generation since the Wii (which would play Gamecube games) and handhelds have always compatible with the previous generation, from the Game Boy Color all the way to New 3DS.
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Re:Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux... by swiley on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @05:50PM (#11949703)
The SNES was actually supposed to play NES games as well, but that ended up getting dropped.
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