Microsoft is the first to offer extensive backwards compatible gaming as made apparent with their program to play Xbox 360 games on their current generation platform – the Xbox One. So, if gamers have the physical or digital copy of a game, there’s no additional costs to use this feature. The company is so dedicated to keeping this feature on the market for players that there are almost 400 available titles and more just keep on coming. On the other side of the console gaming market, Europe Sony executive, Jim Ryan, has more dismissive ideas on that direction.

During an interview with Time, Ryan joined in to discuss the PlayStation Virtual Reality and its current trend in the industry. With the current rise in popularity and funding in all directions, it’s not a “fad” that will simply go away. According to the interview, the future for VR is remarkably bright. Soon, the conversation turned toward more on the side of backward compatibility and the prospects of that coming to Sony platforms.

When we’ve dabbled with backwards compatibility, I can say it is one of those features that is much requested, but not actually used much,” the Sony executive explained. “That, and I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games, and the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?”

While it remains that a few titles have been brought back from the older generation graveyard for PlayStation consoles, it doesn’t seem very likely that this area has promising trajectory. Instead of focusing their efforts on that, the spotlight is on advancing games that easily attach themselves to the eSports “phenomenon” such as League of Legends, Overwatch, brawlers, and Rocket League. Those are just to name a few. Based on the interview and how short the topic was touched on by the Sony executive and interviewer, it seems as though priorities will not lie in backwards compatible gaming. Moving forward with the popular trends in the industry is the primary objective.

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