Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear... by AmericanChopper on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:43AM (#25134906)

I can’t see any rationale for how it’s forced obsolescence. New consoles offer very obvious improvements over previous consoles, and they don’t prevent old consoles from working. Not offering infinite backwards compatibility with new hardware isn’t forced obsolescence.

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Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear... by gambiting on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:51AM (#25135333)

Yeah it's like saying that Apple is doing forced obsolescence because modern Macs can't run PowerPC Mac software. PCs can run even very very old software because at least the architecture is the same. There is no good way to emulate the CELL cpu of the PS3 on modern x86 architecture, and even emulating PS2 architecture is very very difficult and full of caveats. That's not forced obscolescence, like you said - it's just obsolescence.

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Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear... by Dirlewanger on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:40AM (#25136096)

Well, some parts are forced anyway e.g. you can't play original Xbox games on Xbox Live anymore.

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