
Fans have been asking for true BC in some capacity since the PS4’s announcement, but still today, those requests haven’t been answered.

Sure, there’s PlayStation Now, but that costs money and only allows you to play games via streaming. One of the PS4’s biggest problems is its lack of true backwards compatibility.
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Remember that video PS4 released showing how easy it was to share games on their system, in contrast to Microsoft’s Xbox One game-sharing dismay? The announcement of backwards compatibility was their counter to that. With that being said, Microsoft continued their pursuit of games, games, games this year with nearly 50 video game announcements, reveals, detailings and more: Battlefield V, Black Desert, Crackdown 3, Cuphead DLC, Cyberpunk 2077, Devil May Cry 5, Dying Light 2, Fallout 76, Forza Horizon 4, Gears 5, Gears Tactics, Halo Infinite, Jump Force, Just Cause 4, and should I keep going? I will: Kingdom Hearts 3, Metro Exodus, Nier: Automata Becomes As Gods Edition, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, PUBG, Sea of Thieves, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Session, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition and yes, somehow even more. Sure, maybe their first-party exclusives don’t appeal to you, but with the Xbox One X, it’s easy to declare Xbox a great place to play third-party games.

If you haven’t picked one up yet, it might be for a number of reasons, but you can’t say because of a lack of games. Simply put, this year’s E3 conference from Microsoft was the culmination of what Phil Spencer has been trying to do since he became the head of Xbox: sell the system.
