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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by SmirkingRevenge on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:08PM (#22177319)
All the consoles go through the same thing every time there's a new generation. The consoles have never been backwards compatible, each generation invalidates your previous library. And they always begin with tiny libraries.

Here we are in 2020 and only now have Sony and Microsoft begun talking about backwards compatibility in future console generations.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by ethbro on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:50AM (#22179891)
Never is a strong word.

The initial version of the PS2 had dedicated hardware to be fully compatible with PS1 games.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by Macha on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:06AM (#22180557)
See also

* GameCube to Wii

* Game Boy to Game Boy Color to Game Boy Advance

* Also features a case of backwards compatibility on behalf of games too. A lot of GBC games would run in a Gameboy in black and white

* Nintendo DS to 3DS

* PS2 to launch PS3

* (Announced) Xbox one to Xbox Series X

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by mrguyorama on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:34PM (#22183319)
* Wii to Wii U * Limited original Xbox to Xbox 360 * Less limited Xbox 360 to Xbox one * Early sega consoles
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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by pandaman on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:54PM (#22184403)
All versions of PS2 have the PS1 hardware since it does I/O on the PS2. You are probably confusing with PS3, which had the PS2 hardware in the first versions specifically for backwards compatibility.
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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by rchaud on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:01AM (#22181943)
The first PS2 model came out ~20 years ago, and likely offered backwards compatibility only because very few developers then were building games to maximize the capabilities of DVD storage.
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