In company lingo, "feasible" just means "profitable". Yeah some guy in a basement did it, but it probably wasn't incredibly optimized for the platform. If software doesn't run great on your hardware, then there'd be no reason to market and sell it other than something like convenience. All because people can play Doom Eternal on a Samsung fridge doesn't mean people should or that Samsung should use it as a selling point.
Funny story that's basically me with the private server Toontown Rewritten's support team... I uh... Forced an IP ban and uh maybe emailed them one too many times to appeal it and uh... Yeah... They REALLY don't like me anymore. I mean they hated me while I still played for literally no reason but like they really hate me now...
I just had a thought. There were probably some kids who never owned GameBoys but instead owned a Super GameBoy and an SNES and thought that was the only way to play GameBoy games.
I had like 50 euros on a game shop and most of the new wii games were of that price or even more,, the store employee told my parents that with that money i could buy a gamecube controller and like 3 used gamecube games, i was really happy
it still amazes me that you can boot the real deal msdos 6.22 and play those games to an extent on modern hardware (like, think today's ryzens and such), your mileage might vary and you'll likely only have beep boops for sound but still
Still trying to get Reading Blaster(9-12) to run on my PC. Used Hyper V but no sound with Hyper V Used Virtual Box but it ran like crap I miss the windows 7 virtual pc, that shit was perfect for what I needed.
i grew up with only a gba so you can just imagine how delighted i was when i got a DS lite for xmas one year. I could finally play cooking mama AND pokemon firered on one system? amazing
Recently watched the video where he browses the hard drive of the internet and you where he goes "I just felt like wasting $3,000" and thought to myself damn how much money does he make from youtube lol
“Hey y’all, Scott here. Oh don’t worry, this one is my primary Wii U, and these are my Wii U’s if I get lasagna on this one.” How is Scott able to nail his intros lines, every, single, time?
I love the amount of shots in this video that are just “I slapped an old cartridge against the next systems cartridge slot and it didn’t fit” and how it’s funny every time
11:57 If you open up a Nintendo DS game on a Nintendo 3DS holding down the SELECT button, the screen will scale down to Perfect-Pixel mode however games will look much nicer the size out of the way. Hope that whoever reads this welp it surely helps you out. EDIT: You can now hold just the SELECT Button.
Here's a small Fun Fact for those who care (No one): Scott's video on Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash got 1.8 million views, more views than ANY other video Nintendo uploaded about the game, which means he marketed the game better than Nintendo
8:18 It makes sense with context: Before Xbox, Microsoft worked with Sega on the Dreamcast. So they asked Microsoft if they could use Dreamcast discs on Xbox, because they have worked before.
okay. the shot at 9:48 is INSANE. im guessing the micro was put on a green background to be chromakeyed into a picture of the cart on the carpet. the effort scott puts into a one second shot is insane.
11:28 Being completely honest, i found it super charming to go back into a wii menu to play my wii games, it felt like a blast of the past, even if it took more steps.
Backwards compatibility was very important to us poor kids, we have a PS2 that we STILL use. it came in handy when our cousins would give us hand-me down games when they got new consoles for Christmas.
Ps2 is a really good dvd player and has many good games. I'm waiting for the ps5 to come out to lower ps4's price so I can finally afford a ps3. Ps3 is really hard to emulate and there are many good games that I want to play.
@@HoangNguyen-ej4wb yeah ps3 does have a lot of good games, I wanted one when I was younger because it had backwards compatibility, but my mother said she's rather just save up for the Ps4 since it was new at the time. Right now the only reason I would want to buy a Ps5 is for Spiderman miles Morales.
2:38 For what it's worth, there actually was competition for better graphics even in this era of gaming. "Graphics" in this period meant things like being able to have more colors on-screen at once. This actually effected the development of some games. Atari strongly encouraged game developers to never use a black background except to represent space. Why? Because a different color implied that the system could handle more colors, and they wanted to show off. This is why, for example, Pac Man for the Atari 2600 has a blue background: Atari said 'no' to a black background like regular Pac-Man has.
Also, Atari actually did sue Mattel and Coleco over their 2600 adapters but lost when a judge ruled that because the 2600 was built entirely from off the shelf parts its design couldn't technically be patented. That's probably why later game consoles emphasized their unique hardware.
I feel alone in actually genuinely using backwards compatibility. Sometimes I want to catch up on older games in series that are getting new installments.
I use it! I used my 3DS to play DS games before I had a DS Lite, and I got a DS Lite specifically for the GBA backwards compatibility! That and the ability to transfer my currently-hypothetical Pokémon from Emerald to Platinum when I eventually get the former! I also used my Wii U’s backwards compatibility quite a bit.
The people who benefit the most from backwards compatibility are the ones who never had the older console to begin with. I just got a PS5 and Series X last year, and both are the first of each console line I've ever owned. Being able to play all these big PS4 and 360 games is a godsend.
so as someone that has done a lot with the ds I gotta add in that the 3ds family is TECHNICALLY also backwards compatible with the gba (so was the dsi actually but i couldn't access it) because the arm 9 processor of the gba is in the 3ds, since when you launch a ds game the 3ds actually relaunches into a modified ds mode using the actual ds processor, which because the ds had gba support, also has gba support, but the only games that ever used it officially were the 10 ambassador games, while some games have save issues due to the weird way it deals with roms a modded 3ds plays most gba games with no emulation probleme because it's not emulation, it's on the metal gba
I want nintendo to release more handhelds so the cost of the switch can be smaller so the cost of the new 3ds xl can be smaller so that I can finally afford a new 2ds xl and modded it.
A part of me kind of believes the only reason Microsoft started doing Backwards Compabtility again is too cover the fact that the Xbox one didn't really have too many worthwhile exclusives at the time .
That’s probably the case and it definitely worked for me. Having the convenience of just popping my 360 disc into the one and installing the game is way better than what Sony was offering, which was charging us to play a PS3 games for weird increments of time. Like you can pay $5 for an hour, $15 for a day, and like $30 for a week of something like that. It was very strange and I hated it. Thank God they updated it to be more like Gamepass.
Backwards compatibility has always been a huge selling point for me. I always replay my old games. Not having to hang on to extra hardware is always a boon.
Like the dude said just emulate it on your own terms. For a company that’s too expensive in some cases. People bring up ps3 emulators working then shit talk Sony as if the ps4 could run them lmao. Modern PCs still struggle with some ps3 emulated games so no matter what some consoles just can’t go backwards. Plus less than 1% of the user base is gonna be emulating at any given time. It’s a neat feature but to a company it’s just useless. Ps4 and ps5 are pretty similar and have hugely shared fanbase since the games and diminish returns has kicked in there’s no huge graphical or hardware developmental difference like with the ps1-2-3 anymore.
@@georgec9384 Emulation just isn’t the same tho. Every single time I’ve tried emulation it doesn’t feel good, at all. The first time I played Super Mario 64 was through an emulator using a Ps4 controller. I had to bleach my hands afterwards because of that.
@@waled7564 Yeah, emulation is often the only way to truly play prior-gen games. Rarely can a new system natively play its last gen games. Going back to more than one gen is basically out of the question. When emulation is necessary it is far better, in most cases, to either play on the original system or use a PC with the horsepower to run the game well.
Scott keeps reiterating, "Backwards compatibility is nice on the back of the box, not so much in gameplay" "Nobody cares about backwards compatibility" "All consoles which have backwards compatibility fails" and I'm like, WHAT!? Backwards compatibility has got to be, hands down, the best thing ever for consoles. I used and USE it all the time! I am not shitting you, we were a WiiU family. I played on Wii, all of my cousins had one, we didn't. When the WiiU came out, we instantly snagged one up, and I was playing all the best Wii hits along with all the new games. I still contest the WiiU was great. But I also can't tell you how many hours I spent on Wii Sports Resort. Some of my most cherished gaming memories wouldn't exist without backwards compatibility. Nostalgia aside, it's just amazing to have and NOT frivolous. I played tons, and I mean TONS of DS games on 3DS. Even to this day, I use my PS5 to play PS4 games. I won't accept this slander!
Fully agreed, dude! 😎 I hope that the "switch 2" or whatever is backwards compatible with my switch games. That way I can play Mario 3D All-Stars for years to come instead of keeping fingers crossed that Nintendo would re-release them...
@@lakitudude7577 None of what *you* said refutes *my* claim. Plus it does. I didn't directly say that backwards-compatible consoles sell well, yet the 3DS and PS5 are titanic examples. My argument is that backwards compatibility is a great selling point and is widely used. Scott claims backwards compatibility is rarely used. I never once even claimed it makes them sell better. But also, don't go there if you don't know what you're talking about. Scott may also partially wrong about this. I don't know if he despites backwards compatibility being a *reason* consoles sell well or if they sell well at all, yet still. But to reply to you, the WiiU is one of the worst performing mainstream consoles. Meanwhile: #1 PlayStation 2: >155 Million units sold. All/most units backwards compatible with PS1. An undeniable factor in its success, documented everywhere, not to mention the PS1's preexisting >100 million units. #2 Nintendo DS: 154 Million units. A lot of units were not backwards compatible, but the Game Boy Advance was so popular (80 million), Nintendo banked on it playing Game Boy Advance games in case it flopped. #4 Game Boy/GBC: Can't find specific numbers on each model, but arguably the Game Boy was *forwards* compatible with GBC games, lengthening its own lifespan and contributing to the success of GBC games, so it arguably counts at least a little. You can go down the list to find even more. 7 out of the 10 top selling systems had it, and most, including the No.1, was influential to its success. Backwards Compatibility might not guarantee success, but can bolster a well-known brand ten fold. Final (anecdotal) point: You assuming backwards compatibility has no correlation with success reeks of privilege. Most can't just buy the new consoles. Often, you sell your old one and games to buy a new one, with around only half the money you put in, ergo you lose all your old games and can only buy very few. Meanwhile, buying a console backwards compatible with your old one makes selling the old one carry no weight, and raising money to get the new one. You assuming it carries no correlation to success makes me think you never had to *make* that choice.
The comment about getting lasagna on your Wii U reminded me of a friend of mine who's Gamecube wouldn't close properly because he spilled raviolis into it, he used to have to weigh the lid down to keep it closed and I never actually got a straight answer out of him as to how he managed to spill ravioli INTO a Gamecube.
@@jupita551 That's my best guess, haven't thought about that thing in years, I can still remember him showing it to me and being able to see where dried pasta sauce and bits of pasta were lodged into various places and just laughing my ass off.
Not really, the homebrew community literally ripped Nintendo's emulator out of the ambassador gba games and figured out how to put arbitrary gba ROMs into it, complete with fancy home metadata and home screen icons
@@crackerjack0349 The third generation of Xbox includes the Xbox One and the Xbox One X; the fourth generation includes the Xbox Series X. The difference between the names don't make it sound like a generational leap forward
11:24 This was likely to save cost, cos it meant they could just emulate the entire wii with minor changes, mind the Wii may have been basically a overclocked gamecube but the wii u had different hardware so it had to emulate
Yea ps4 is overall weaker then the ps3, that being said it would be possible to play ps3 games on ps4 (because of ps3 games barely using the power of the system) but it would take a bunch of time and resources and it would basically just be porting the games to run on the ps4 and doing that for all the ps3 games isnt cheap and generally not worth it. (Unless you were to resell the games)
Depends on where in Europe, really. Here in Germany, the NES lead the market next to the Commodore 64 on the home computer side of things. Over in the UK however, the MasterSystem was the shit. And actually, I agree as I have a couple of MasterSystem games that I still like to play every once in a while.
"Inserting an old Xbox disk just unlocks it's download" I... I didn't know that. Thank you. Been on the fence of getting Morrowind on my X1. Didn't know I could just pop it in and get the digital version. Thanks Scott!
Wii U is still superior console imo. You can play almost everything old by CFW Wii U > Wii > GC > N64 > SNES > NES DS > GBA > GBC > GB PSP > PS1 SATURN (Somewhat) > GENESIS > SMS > GG NEO GEO ARCADE > POCKET > ETC
And our number 8 spot is brought to you by colts firearms, hmm can't get enough of those colts firearms, thou shalt not kill, and thou can not kill without the use of colts firearms, colts done is again!
Matthew 9:17 explains backwards compatibility perfectly: “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.” Wine is a pretty standard game people binge in play sessions to this very day!
10:01 "When they revised the DS with the Nintendo DS Lite, the GBA slot remained, but now the games stuck out like how games stick out on a DS Lite." Hmm yes the floor here is made of floor
Fun fact, the Wii U natively supports Gamecube games yet they never put them on the virtual console, even after making an adapter for Gamecube controllers, which couldn't even work in the wii mode outside of brawl. They really hate the Gamecube don't they.
I mean if you had two options to port games and one was “the system that revolutionized 3D games” and the other was “the third worst preforming console” which one would you choose
Too bad you didn’t talk about the weird region locks on some of these systems. For example the Nintendo DS wasn’t region locked and I was able to play USA imported games on my EU DS. Now the 3DS was region locked, but only for 3DS games. I can still play my imported regular DS games on my EU 3DS... Talk about confusing.
Am I alone in thinking this doesn’t sound particularly confusing? “I was able to play my games, now I’m able to play my games.” Must be more confusing for owners of an NA 3DS. But I don’t know that I’ve ever heard someone complain about it. Does Mario not come out in every region? Zelda? Insert Nintendo evergreen franchise here?
My dad has been a lifelong gamer and was enough of a sucker to buy a PS3 at launch. Playing all my PS2 games on PS3 as a kid was a dream, that champ of a launch model is still going strong and while it is mostly regulated to a streaming device today, I always appreciated it’s backwards compatibility. How else was I going to experience Lord of the Rings Return of the Kind on the main family room TV
@Brendan Milburn Couldn't the IRS just track him through his virgin tax bills that are included in his electric bill? I'd imagine that his address would be on file.
Major companies: Backwards compatibility is hard to do tho! Emulation teams: Reverse engineering software they know nothing about to make games playable on a completely different platform with near infinite possible combinations of hardware and software differences working off of donations and volunteer work then releasing it for free.
I don't think people realize that if they made more consoles backwards compatible how much it would increase cost. Emulation team takes countless hours and typically years before quality emulation starts to come about because how complex emulation is to develop. I'm a Software Dev/Security Analyst, the amount of time and effort it takes to reverse engineer something is absolutely staggering and most of the time, just isn't worth the effort. That same concept applies to major companies because they have to pay devs or buy licensing to third party emulators. Either way it would always increase the cost of the console so most opt out of wasting that time.
At some point, I mean, just re-release the console. Yeah, I know, piracy blah blah. It’s not like people don’t do that already on PC, if they’re so inclined. A new SKU of PS3 might not sell, since everything of note on that system is on newer hardware, but a reissue of the PS2 Slim could be cheap and a multi-million unit shifter.
@@WiseEXE not to mention the fact that A) As Scott mentioned nobody actually cares and I believe Sony and Microsoft have numbers supporting this B) Legal side, companies are more at risk by selling it in a product! Free emulators usually have a lot of bugs, might not handle a lot of games and can be known to crash hardware etc... but it doesn't matter with those because they aren't a bought product and so dont have to work. A feature on console by law has to work and work well in a way a consumer can use without risk. Ofcourse it can have limited support but the support it has must pass quality control tests.
That was my plan. Unfortunately, the thicc boi PS3 is a solder re-ball job waiting to happen. And it got tired of waiting, in my case. Still lasted about 12x longer than my launch 360, but sooner or later, an old console will find ways to screw with you. I’ll get it fixed, but it won’t be by mine own hand. With a soldering iron, I’m exceptional only as a notorious killer of motherboards. The scourge of PCBs, and the despoiler of integrated circuits. With one or two scars to demonstrate that my “talents”, such as they are, are not limited to irreparably damaging electronics.
To be fair, Microsoft *had* to use emulation for backwards compatibility because the processors used completely different instruction sets, so I really couldn't blame them for that.
I'm glad he's making videos about gaming in general rather than individual games but sheesh dude, you stayed up till 1am to post it? You need to get some sleep to grow your beard
Are you two in the same time zone? It would've been about 9 am that he posted for me but that's crazy if he was editing/waiting for youtube to upload at that time. He strikes me as a Tom Scott type to have videos unlisted until the right moment
beginning of the video: "in case I get lasagna on my wii u" end of the video: Got lasagna on his wii u. I see it coming a mile away but I still giggle like no other. that's called charm
I’ll be honest: as someone who never sells any of his old games, but doesn’t have enough space to plug in every console, backwards compatibility is something I might be missing more than anything else from my gaming experiences
I don’t remember how I found Scott, my friend asked me if I know who Scott the woz was and I literally had no idea who he was, then for some reason the words, “hey yall, Scott here” sounded so familiar to me, then I watched a video and never questioned it, watched basically every episode sense that day
That's basically what happened to me. I don't even remember how I knew that a channel called "scott the woz' existed, but I did somehow. Then I fell in love at first sight
Scott is able to do something like nostalgia-playing. You know these „Strangely Familiar Places“ videos? It's showing pictures of places that you've never in your life been before, but it still somehow feels like you have some kind of nostalgic bound to it, like you've been there as a kid, allthough you didn't. The part of Scott's videos that triggers it the most is his outro. The music and the blue backround just feel like you've been knowing both for your entire life, it has always been in your head. Comming to think that Scott made this channel in 2012, still needed some time to gain popularity and that I'm literally 15 years old, still needed many years to be allowed to watch UA-cam and just recently discovered his channel. It also has many factors: The way Scott looks, moves, talks, his way of always starting videos with the words „Hey all, Scott here“. It feels like I've been knowing this guy for my entire life and it frightens me...
That was the reason I bought a second hand Wii U. With both the Wii and Wii U games there was a ton of more games I wanted to play than on any other console.
@@treyjudah Stop taking yourself so seriously. Physical media has been dying for years, 90% of games don't even see a physical release. Skate to where the puck is going.
Backwards compatibility is really nice. I appreciate it when I can still play my old games on an upgraded system. DS and 3DS games are some of my favorites, very glad I can play those all on one system. Still keep a DS Lite around if I want to, say, transfer Pokémon up from the GBA games.
So happy you covered this topic, I'm the 1% That's absolutely cares about backwards compatibility. To the point that it was one of the main reasons why I moved on to PC, I could play from game boy games to Xbox games on my pc. Although playing on emulators helped me understand how hard it is to make a console backwards compatible, it's 100% worth putting back compatibility on consoles to prolong the life span of games imo or else I'd still be breaking the law by playing jet set radio future on my pc. If I can't easily get JSRF I'm gonna find a way to play it cause godDAMN do I feel funky when I play that game.
Same here. I moved to PC gaming before the PS4/Xbox One were released, and now I'm thinking of getting a PS5 because I could get to play some PS4 exclusives I missed.
@@csir62 dude it´s not even about "if I can´t easily get JSRF" sometimes you basically can´t AND the PC community does awesome stuff like online modes with pirated old games.
@@thelegendofstonecoldstevea3205 Sadly, my apartment doesn't have room for my NES, Genesis, SNES, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1 - 3, and all my Xbox's. Also, this doesn't include my handhelds like Switch and 3DS.
As someone who didn’t have a PS4 and now has a PS5 I can say that backwards compatibility is the best thing ever. I’ve been playing all the games from PS4 that I missed out on and I haven’t even touched any of the actual ps5 games that I own
“Who doesn’t like having all the consoles in the world?” I have never heard such a powerful flex
its the best flex bro
The best flex is flex tape
haha emulators go brrrrr
@@CosmicFox2007 emulation gang rise
Emulators go
Multibillion-dollar tech company: It's just not feasible with the current hardware.
Some guy in a basement: I did it.
But at what cost
It's more "it's just not profitable for us so we won't bother"
In company lingo, "feasible" just means "profitable". Yeah some guy in a basement did it, but it probably wasn't incredibly optimized for the platform. If software doesn't run great on your hardware, then there'd be no reason to market and sell it other than something like convenience. All because people can play Doom Eternal on a Samsung fridge doesn't mean people should or that Samsung should use it as a selling point.
**cough** ps3 backwards compatibility **cough**
A NECKBEARD BUILT THIS IN A BASEMENT WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS
It is good to know that Woz the Scott is backwards compatible
The Woz Scott
Watcha doing here?
Hi Lithium!
Speak of the devil
All hey Woz here
Scott took the time to cook up some lasagna and place it on his Wii U just for a 5 second joke.
Scott does so much for his jokes even though they’re usually only a few seconds. So much respect
This man has a stupid amount of dedication to his jokes
Free sea of thieves item for every chips ahoy! Well don’t mind if I do.
@@aubreyh1930 Isn’t your profile picture from a Chadtronic video where he asked everyone to put that as their profile picture
i hope he enjoyed the rest of the lasagna~
Why is he getting a virgin tax, he's played Donkey Kong Barrel Blast
Edit this was made before the new dk barrel blast vid
This is truly underrated of a statement.
thats what i said
Must have been a mistake.
Can he file a court case on it.
i made like 170, sorry for ruining 169
Is no one gonna talk about how Scott is starting to grow a beard?
He’s finally going through puberty!
if he just stopped playing donkey kong barrel blast he could have kept his virginity and grown a wizard beard way sooner
2:55 "this was the peachfuzz era of Scott the Woz videos"
He must have been inspired by Linus over at LTT!
It’s the alternate reality remember he broke reality.
I’m not going to.
I like the bit where it’s implied Nintendo has a photo of a person to not take phone calls from.
You're right, they probably have multiple.
Does Scott face time them
He calls twice a day to report lasagna on the console
Funny story that's basically me with the private server Toontown Rewritten's support team... I uh... Forced an IP ban and uh maybe emailed them one too many times to appeal it and uh... Yeah... They REALLY don't like me anymore. I mean they hated me while I still played for literally no reason but like they really hate me now...
@@FusionFall20 Ah, so your the Brandon that Steve from Customer Service was going on about...
JK I just wanted to make a funny comment.
I just had a thought. There were probably some kids who never owned GameBoys but instead owned a Super GameBoy and an SNES and thought that was the only way to play GameBoy games.
It said on the box, but then again I doubt they would read it.
That's going to be me in due time:)
Probably very few. The GameBoy was a much larger thing than the SNES, not to mention the Super Gameboy. :)
Everyone knew Gameboy
the gameboy is one of the most sold gaming devices in history
My family didn't realise our wii was backwards compatible until I went over to another kid's house and they had the covers open. It was a good day
I never knew it until a few years after I gave away my wii for a wii u
I had like 50 euros on a game shop and most of the new wii games were of that price or even more,, the store employee told my parents that with that money i could buy a gamecube controller and like 3 used gamecube games, i was really happy
Shoot the Gamecube controller ports aren't just there for GC backwards compatibility. Wii games can use them too.
my family didn't realize it until a decade after we got it and I wanted to use my GC controller for MKWii
@@techy804 at that point just play mario kart on the gamecube
1:52 PC gaming isn’t perfect either. 16-bit games don’t work on 64-bit operating systems.
R.I.P. _Garfield: Caught in the Act_
at least there's dosbox thankfully
Emulators
it still amazes me that you can boot the real deal msdos 6.22 and play those games to an extent on modern hardware (like, think today's ryzens and such), your mileage might vary and you'll likely only have beep boops for sound but still
You can with Dosbox
Still trying to get Reading Blaster(9-12) to run on my PC.
Used Hyper V but no sound with Hyper V
Used Virtual Box but it ran like crap
I miss the windows 7 virtual pc, that shit was perfect for what I needed.
i grew up with only a gba so you can just imagine how delighted i was when i got a DS lite for xmas one year. I could finally play cooking mama AND pokemon firered on one system? amazing
Kayla, are you okay
@@skerpy of course they are cooking mama fucking slaps
@@aubreyh1930 indeed, especially shop and chop
but i hate toast and eggs recipe, i always fail it even if it's only two steps
Yeah I grew up on GB/GBA/DS and PS2/PS3. Backwards compatibility central
i think this is my favourite comment ever
"BAM! It's a Wii now"
PS move in a Nutshell
Yes
Mysteries of the world
1: The Bermuda Triangle
2: The Rosetta Stone
3: Scott’s Endless Video Game Budget
Edit: What Is Even Happening?
Recently watched the video where he browses the hard drive of the internet and you where he goes "I just felt like wasting $3,000" and thought to myself damn how much money does he make from youtube lol
Money
Probably 50 cents with how UA-cam would treat him lol.
Ayeeee go Rangers
*Here before the comment blew up 🙏*
I respect that Scott consciously knows that he should buy a PC and just doesn't because he's stubborn
I you're willing to spend some more and do some futzing around, it is by far the best game platform in my opinion.
Pc is the best gaming platform objectively but the price especially now is kinda steep.
@@Wab2007 yar har fiddle dee dee
@@rxzd_ diddleee dee indeed
Pc is only better for fps games
*if scott's growing a beard, he's gonna be a man, and then who will whine about ziplash now?!?!?!?*
Everyone else, we are losing soldiers fast though. It’s almost like they don’t care.
His girlfriend.
Nobody, he already defeated it.
He got it out of his system for 46 minutes, don't worry. He finished the fight.
Adult Scott, probably.
“Hey y’all, Scott here. Oh don’t worry, this one is my primary Wii U, and these are my Wii U’s if I get lasagna on this one.”
How is Scott able to nail his intros lines, every, single, time?
my social skills will always make me mess up no matter what
Weeks of practice
Because they're simplistic reddit humor
@@chad9166 why are you replying to 9 month old comments on videos you clearly dislike
@Faken Namel I cringed looking at my comment because I don’t watch him anymore, sorry, I wanted to express my feelings but that was rude.
I love the amount of shots in this video that are just “I slapped an old cartridge against the next systems cartridge slot and it didn’t fit” and how it’s funny every time
The man knows funny
Indeed
Like that image that Nintendo sent to the guy who asked about SNES games on the 3DS
11:57 If you open up a Nintendo DS game on a Nintendo 3DS holding down the SELECT button, the screen will scale down to Perfect-Pixel mode however games will look much nicer the size out of the way. Hope that whoever reads this welp it surely helps you out.
EDIT: You can now hold just the SELECT Button.
I never found that to be my preferred way to play DS games, it was worth getting a DSi XL to utilize the full screen ratio imo
Oh, thanks for the tip!
Bruh you only need start or select
Does that include newer models or just the original 3DS?
@@starryrose6168 every 3DS has that feature as far as I know
Here's a small Fun Fact for those who care (No one):
Scott's video on Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash got 1.8 million views, more views than ANY other video Nintendo uploaded about the game, which means he marketed the game better than Nintendo
Bruh
Thats a fun fun fact
What does that have to do with this video?
Dam lmao
@@zachatck6567 Well Scott is in it. And he is talking about video games
i honestly adore backwards compatibility, it’s introduced me to so many really good games like bioshock infinite
Backwards Compatibility: Doesn't Exist
Scott's Wallet: *Guess I'll Die*
@Jayden oestreich yes
if you say so
It exist on Xbox One
Scott's wallet dies constantly on every purchase he's ever made .
Collecting lifestyle
"Imagine if this banana was an Atari 5200"
The banana can probably out-power two of those...
I mean you can play dark souls whit potatoe graphics
"Atari couldn't just look pathetic , they were Atari "
- Scott
i watched the video, you don't need to quote it.
Bababooie
He is not wrong.
@@tubegerm6732 so ppl cant comment their favorite quotes from a video?
@@tubegerm6732 still funny though lol
8:18 It makes sense with context: Before Xbox, Microsoft worked with Sega on the Dreamcast. So they asked Microsoft if they could use Dreamcast discs on Xbox, because they have worked before.
Huh. Really? 🤔
On what part? Is it the bonehead decision to use quad polygons instead of the traditional triangles which made it difficult to emulate?
@@Web720 the part with Minecraft and Dreamcast discs
@@Web720 I think it was with the hardware or smth. I heard it from Didyouknowgaming.
@@SomeoneIDKK Thanks!
Hes growing facial hair GUYS HES GROWING FACIAL HAIR OMG
Our little boy is growing into a little man before our very eyes! We need to cherish these moments ... I wish I knew how to scrapbook!
WHERE
@@PorkpieJohnny On his face?
@@Dargonhuman AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@@Dargonhuman This was unnecessarily funny lmao
okay. the shot at 9:48 is INSANE. im guessing the micro was put on a green background to be chromakeyed into a picture of the cart on the carpet. the effort scott puts into a one second shot is insane.
no i think he just took a photo of the micro on carpet and chromakeyed the cartridge in
I know right? I thought it was real at first and took me a second to realize it
The cartridge is chroma-keyed on. You can tell by the bottom right corner. Still cool shot!
You can just photoshop it, it's a still image
Can someone explain to me what the big deal is? Couldn't he just have taken a picture of the micro and the cartridge?
I love how Scott's Wii menu is nicely organized with each console getting it's own bin for games. Except Mario tennis for some reason
hope it was ultra smash
@@SlyHikari03 It's actually Power Tour.
@@Mordecai0799 That explains why then
11:28
Being completely honest, i found it super charming to go back into a wii menu to play my wii games, it felt like a blast of the past, even if it took more steps.
Backwards compatibility was very important to us poor kids, we have a PS2 that we STILL use. it came in handy when our cousins would give us hand-me down games when they got new consoles for Christmas.
Many phones can play ps2 games now.
@@HoangNguyen-ej4wb yeah but a lot of the good ones like San Andreas you have to pay for, I'd rather play it for free since I already have it lol
Ps2 is a really good dvd player and has many good games. I'm waiting for the ps5 to come out to lower ps4's price so I can finally afford a ps3. Ps3 is really hard to emulate and there are many good games that I want to play.
@@HoangNguyen-ej4wb yeah ps3 does have a lot of good games, I wanted one when I was younger because it had backwards compatibility, but my mother said she's rather just save up for the Ps4 since it was new at the time. Right now the only reason I would want to buy a Ps5 is for Spiderman miles Morales.
I still play my PS2 games. And PS1 games as well. Thank you, backwards compatibility
"There's a virgin tax?"
Well shoot, no wonder I can never afford food for years.
I can change that lol jkjk
@@TrevorCollin_ ................. d- oh.
@@TrevorCollin_ *oh* *no*
Same 🙃
Trevor Shute Unless.....
Scott: "the master system wasn't the biggest success"
Brazilians: so you have chosen death.
Are they still selling Sega consoles in Brazil in the present ?
@@liengandriod55 yes and no, SEGA license them to Tectoy, who keeps producing them.
@@thaismagalhaes5928 Ohh ok. Thank for the info 😊
Não achava que eu ia achar brs nesse tipo de video
@@augsto12341 Brs estão em todo lugar 😎
Playstation 4 owners: "We want backwards compatibility!"
Sony: "Fuck you, buy our remasters."
Sony even has a working PS2 emulator running the PS2 on PS4 range.
@@MuchWhittering really?
Phantxxm
Yeah
Sony are scumbags
Fixed.
Sony: "Lol no, pay for 144p gameplay with our all new PS Now"
2:38 For what it's worth, there actually was competition for better graphics even in this era of gaming. "Graphics" in this period meant things like being able to have more colors on-screen at once.
This actually effected the development of some games. Atari strongly encouraged game developers to never use a black background except to represent space. Why? Because a different color implied that the system could handle more colors, and they wanted to show off. This is why, for example, Pac Man for the Atari 2600 has a blue background: Atari said 'no' to a black background like regular Pac-Man has.
Also, Atari actually did sue Mattel and Coleco over their 2600 adapters but lost when a judge ruled that because the 2600 was built entirely from off the shelf parts its design couldn't technically be patented. That's probably why later game consoles emphasized their unique hardware.
I feel alone in actually genuinely using backwards compatibility. Sometimes I want to catch up on older games in series that are getting new installments.
I use it! I used my 3DS to play DS games before I had a DS Lite, and I got a DS Lite specifically for the GBA backwards compatibility! That and the ability to transfer my currently-hypothetical Pokémon from Emerald to Platinum when I eventually get the former!
I also used my Wii U’s backwards compatibility quite a bit.
Total amount of Wii Us sold: 13 million
Amount sold to Scott: 13 million
*12.9 million
*12,999,999
The last one was sold to me
I have a Wii U
@@LeynosJehuty shan shiro!
*looks in closet * he took my wii u!!
The people who benefit the most from backwards compatibility are the ones who never had the older console to begin with. I just got a PS5 and Series X last year, and both are the first of each console line I've ever owned. Being able to play all these big PS4 and 360 games is a godsend.
“Nothing about that sounds even close to an idea, WHICH MEANS IT MUST HAVE BEEN A SEGA IDEA”
Absolutely golden
Like their axes?
Scott the Woz has taken another subscription. Alright, time to see what I have in store.
Edit: I like what’s in store!
2022 Edit: 👁👁
only goodness
HUh.... thats incredible
Huh? wow just incredible
Get out of here Mario.
Hope you have some free time for the next few weeks
so as someone that has done a lot with the ds I gotta add in that the 3ds family is TECHNICALLY also backwards compatible with the gba (so was the dsi actually but i couldn't access it) because the arm 9 processor of the gba is in the 3ds, since when you launch a ds game the 3ds actually relaunches into a modified ds mode using the actual ds processor, which because the ds had gba support, also has gba support, but the only games that ever used it officially were the 10 ambassador games, while some games have save issues due to the weird way it deals with roms a modded 3ds plays most gba games with no emulation probleme because it's not emulation, it's on the metal gba
Also, there's rom injection programs around the internet. I have a pretty good library of GBA games on my 3DS thanks to that.
I miss my Nintendo 3DS 😢😢😢
But I did ask for a Switch for Christmas, so the Switch and Xbox One S have got me covered
I want nintendo to release more handhelds so the cost of the switch can be smaller so the cost of the new 3ds xl can be smaller so that I can finally afford a new 2ds xl and modded it.
@@HoangNguyen-ej4wb lol, check the official store. Refurbished 3DS and 2DS are actually quite cheap.
@@eloy40x I searched for a 3ds in Vietnam a lot and most of the 3ds I saw are modded. Also what's the normal cost for a refurbished new 2ds xl?
0:19 here’s a fun fact there were countries back in the day that taxed unmarried men. So technically there was a virgin tax in some countries
A part of me kind of believes the only reason Microsoft started doing Backwards Compabtility again is too cover the fact that the Xbox one didn't really have too many worthwhile exclusives at the time .
That’s probably the reason
Honestly a smart move on their part! Both BC and gamepass actually made the console stand out
It was the reason. That and the XBox One never recovered from the 2013 reveal.
That is the reason I play GTA 4 anyway 😂
That’s probably the case and it definitely worked for me. Having the convenience of just popping my 360 disc into the one and installing the game is way better than what Sony was offering, which was charging us to play a PS3 games for weird increments of time. Like you can pay $5 for an hour, $15 for a day, and like $30 for a week of something like that. It was very strange and I hated it. Thank God they updated it to be more like Gamepass.
"Oh hey this game is backwards compatible!"
"Ok that was fun-" *puts game in my shelf with other games I don't play so it can die*
True
@@maragifalaziongarudyne7406 yare yare
Fun fact: on 3DS systems you can play DS games in their original aspect ratio by holding start as the game boots up
Cool but I don’t think anyone asked
Useful information is useful information
I didnt know that, might try that out even tho i prefer the bigger aspect 👌
I can confirm this
@@brandonlewisgaming6982 Useful information is useful information, doesn't matter if someone asked or didn't ask.
Backwards compatibility has always been a huge selling point for me. I always replay my old games. Not having to hang on to extra hardware is always a boon.
Scott: has 4 Wii consoles
Me remembering the pal Wii U for we dare
Only 4? Amateurs
I find backwards compatibility in some way important to me because I love history and video game history, so playing old things is interesting to me
So then the emulation is for you
Like the dude said just emulate it on your own terms. For a company that’s too expensive in some cases. People bring up ps3 emulators working then shit talk Sony as if the ps4 could run them lmao. Modern PCs still struggle with some ps3 emulated games so no matter what some consoles just can’t go backwards. Plus less than 1% of the user base is gonna be emulating at any given time. It’s a neat feature but to a company it’s just useless. Ps4 and ps5 are pretty similar and have hugely shared fanbase since the games and diminish returns has kicked in there’s no huge graphical or hardware developmental difference like with the ps1-2-3 anymore.
@@georgec9384 Emulation just isn’t the same tho.
Every single time I’ve tried emulation it doesn’t feel good, at all.
The first time I played Super Mario 64 was through an emulator using a Ps4 controller.
I had to bleach my hands afterwards because of that.
Do not get the switch then. No backwards compatability is one of many Ls for the switch.
@@waled7564 Yeah, emulation is often the only way to truly play prior-gen games. Rarely can a new system natively play its last gen games. Going back to more than one gen is basically out of the question. When emulation is necessary it is far better, in most cases, to either play on the original system or use a PC with the horsepower to run the game well.
Last time I was this early, the only virgin tax was for having a Dreamcast
Man. That's early.
Mine was for having a GameCube.
Mine was for breathing
Scott keeps reiterating, "Backwards compatibility is nice on the back of the box, not so much in gameplay" "Nobody cares about backwards compatibility" "All consoles which have backwards compatibility fails" and I'm like, WHAT!?
Backwards compatibility has got to be, hands down, the best thing ever for consoles. I used and USE it all the time! I am not shitting you, we were a WiiU family. I played on Wii, all of my cousins had one, we didn't. When the WiiU came out, we instantly snagged one up, and I was playing all the best Wii hits along with all the new games. I still contest the WiiU was great. But I also can't tell you how many hours I spent on Wii Sports Resort. Some of my most cherished gaming memories wouldn't exist without backwards compatibility.
Nostalgia aside, it's just amazing to have and NOT frivolous. I played tons, and I mean TONS of DS games on 3DS. Even to this day, I use my PS5 to play PS4 games. I won't accept this slander!
Fully agreed, dude! 😎
I hope that the "switch 2" or whatever is backwards compatible with my switch games. That way I can play Mario 3D All-Stars for years to come instead of keeping fingers crossed that Nintendo would re-release them...
None of what you said refuted him. Sure the wii u had backwards compatibility. Still sold like shit
@@lakitudude7577 None of what *you* said refutes *my* claim. Plus it does. I didn't directly say that backwards-compatible consoles sell well, yet the 3DS and PS5 are titanic examples. My argument is that backwards compatibility is a great selling point and is widely used. Scott claims backwards compatibility is rarely used. I never once even claimed it makes them sell better.
But also, don't go there if you don't know what you're talking about. Scott may also partially wrong about this. I don't know if he despites backwards compatibility being a *reason* consoles sell well or if they sell well at all, yet still. But to reply to you, the WiiU is one of the worst performing mainstream consoles. Meanwhile:
#1 PlayStation 2: >155 Million units sold. All/most units backwards compatible with PS1. An undeniable factor in its success, documented everywhere, not to mention the PS1's preexisting >100 million units.
#2 Nintendo DS: 154 Million units. A lot of units were not backwards compatible, but the Game Boy Advance was so popular (80 million), Nintendo banked on it playing Game Boy Advance games in case it flopped.
#4 Game Boy/GBC: Can't find specific numbers on each model, but arguably the Game Boy was *forwards* compatible with GBC games, lengthening its own lifespan and contributing to the success of GBC games, so it arguably counts at least a little.
You can go down the list to find even more. 7 out of the 10 top selling systems had it, and most, including the No.1, was influential to its success. Backwards Compatibility might not guarantee success, but can bolster a well-known brand ten fold.
Final (anecdotal) point: You assuming backwards compatibility has no correlation with success reeks of privilege. Most can't just buy the new consoles. Often, you sell your old one and games to buy a new one, with around only half the money you put in, ergo you lose all your old games and can only buy very few. Meanwhile, buying a console backwards compatible with your old one makes selling the old one carry no weight, and raising money to get the new one. You assuming it carries no correlation to success makes me think you never had to *make* that choice.
@@Morhamms357 let him cook
@@PotionMaster21Dawg had 5 months to come up with a counterargument and did nothing. I think I gave him enough time to cook.
Scott: posts at midnight
Me: This is important.
Yes 😌
Well it’s midnight where you live
@@nasseemnaffaa3266 yes.
Bruh its 9pm here
It’s only 7:50 in the USA
i choked on air when he showed the gameboy micro next to a gameboy game
I didn’t knew the gb micro is the size of a thumb
dude that was definitely edited, it's not THAT small lol
@@TheFreakOnee woooosh
@@marmarchan69 lol That doesn't even make sense there is no woosh happening here
@@TheFreakOnee wooooshing someone is a way to indirectly tell somebody that they didn’t get the joke.
The comment about getting lasagna on your Wii U reminded me of a friend of mine who's Gamecube wouldn't close properly because he spilled raviolis into it, he used to have to weigh the lid down to keep it closed and I never actually got a straight answer out of him as to how he managed to spill ravioli INTO a Gamecube.
Maybe he used it as a pot or plate? lmao
That was a way to play one of the very few GC cooking games.
Was the "ravioli" brown, chunky, and smelly?
@@jupita551 That's my best guess, haven't thought about that thing in years, I can still remember him showing it to me and being able to see where dried pasta sauce and bits of pasta were lodged into various places and just laughing my ass off.
"it is unbelievably clunky to go on a whole different mode of the system"
That mentality is what made GBA games on 3DS embassador-only, thanks Scott
Honestly, in both cases, I don't understand the issue.
Fortunately that capacity of playing GBA games natively makes a hacked 3ds the perfect handheld for playing all nintendo's handheld catalog
Not really, the homebrew community literally ripped Nintendo's emulator out of the ambassador gba games and figured out how to put arbitrary gba ROMs into it, complete with fancy home metadata and home screen icons
My computer buffered when he said “optimal”
If you live in a country like mine, optimal is about right. Better to buffer than to not load the video at all.
Yeah, work computers don't like the word "Optimal."
@@accountwontlastlong1 Which country do you live in then? Brazil? Tuvalu?
you know microsft messed up when scott has to say the "forth generation of Xbox" so it doesnt confuse peopel
I’m confused
@@crackerjack0349 The third generation of Xbox includes the Xbox One and the Xbox One X; the fourth generation includes the Xbox Series X. The difference between the names don't make it sound like a generational leap forward
@@uncannyplatypus2131 They should have called it the Xbox Z.
@@ninjabluefyre3815
YBox
@@uncannyplatypus2131 didn't they say it was just an ultra buffed Xbox One X
"Nothing about that sounds even close to a good idea. Which means it MUST have been a SEGA idea!"
I died.
Just like Sega
@@jj8mes just like a salty boomer that lives in 2006 who is pathetic enough find joy in hating a fictional character
@@ahmadkazan7994 Uhh, context?
As a Sega fan I fucking hate the Saturn. Easily it’s worst console.
11:24 This was likely to save cost, cos it meant they could just emulate the entire wii with minor changes, mind the Wii may have been basically a overclocked gamecube but the wii u had different hardware so it had to emulate
It isn't emulated: the Wii U just has a Wii inside it. They even share the CPU.
SCOTT: The PS4 completely abandoned backwards compatibility.
MODDERS: That can be arranged!
@Lyra Heartfold True. But if there are official first party emulators for both systems, why didn't Sony take advantage of it?
Yea ps4 is overall weaker then the ps3, that being said it would be possible to play ps3 games on ps4 (because of ps3 games barely using the power of the system) but it would take a bunch of time and resources and it would basically just be porting the games to run on the ps4 and doing that for all the ps3 games isnt cheap and generally not worth it. (Unless you were to resell the games)
I still can not believe that modders got the master chief collection on ps4
@@zachh2864 the PS3 is stronger than the PS4? Are you joking?
@@GrammerPancreas I think they just mean the Cell Broadband Engine potentially and nothing else.
“Not terrible, not amazing, definitely Microsoft”- So freaking accurate to this day
@@ayeayeayeeee Scott was talking about Xbox’s past when saying that.
"to this day" bro it's been 24 hrs
"The master system wasn't the biggest success" Clearly you're not european. or brazilian.
It wasn't a huge success all over Europe. In Scandinavia for example, it failed pretty hard and NES ruled supreme.
@@Real1Gaming Well here in brazil even in the early to late 2000's some people still were buying it for some reason
Depends on where in Europe, really.
Here in Germany, the NES lead the market next to the Commodore 64 on the home computer side of things.
Over in the UK however, the MasterSystem was the shit.
And actually, I agree as I have a couple of MasterSystem games that I still like to play every once in a while.
@@Real1Gaming Meanwhile in Poland, we had bootleg NES clone called Pegasus lol
The reason data says it sold more than the NES in Brazil is because it doesn't count NES clones
"Inserting an old Xbox disk just unlocks it's download"
I... I didn't know that. Thank you. Been on the fence of getting Morrowind on my X1. Didn't know I could just pop it in and get the digital version. Thanks Scott!
What's cool is if you have a scratched disc, if the Xbox One can just barely read it and see what it is, it'll download.
Except it doesn't work with every game
Some games have been delisted digitally unfortunately. So they're only playable through a disc.
Though you have to have the disc in when you play it.
Wii U is still superior console imo.
You can play almost everything old by CFW
Wii U > Wii > GC > N64 > SNES > NES
DS > GBA > GBC > GB
PSP > PS1
SATURN (Somewhat) > GENESIS > SMS > GG
NEO GEO ARCADE > POCKET > ETC
N64 is eh though
dont forget ds games either
@@Matanumi still better than nothing at all
This. Although most of that is possible on Switch as well
*or you can just use a phone*
“I’m a man of science, not god”
Also Scott: *top 10 commandments*
And our number 8 spot is brought to you by colts firearms, hmm can't get enough of those colts firearms, thou shalt not kill, and thou can not kill without the use of colts firearms, colts done is again!
wow, thats one of my favoratist of the 10 condements
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I love the backwards compatibility on the Wii U, It lets me play the rare unreleased Super Mario Galaxy 2 game!
Cursed
Super Mario Galaxy 2 isn't real and never will be.
Is it real? I thought it was a meme.
The WHAT?
Matthew 9:17 explains backwards compatibility perfectly:
“Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.”
Wine is a pretty standard game people binge in play sessions to this very day!
10:01 "When they revised the DS with the Nintendo DS Lite, the GBA slot remained, but now the games stuck out like how games stick out on a DS Lite."
Hmm yes the floor here is made of floor
It really bothers me when UA-camrs switch nouns and say the opposite of what they were trying to say.
I hear in Africa, every sixty seconds a minute passes.
Its a very scott joke to make
Can't tell if he meant to say like how Gameboy games stick out of a Gameboy Advance SP or if that was typical Scott zest
@@tylerphillips503 that’s how you know it’s good content
i've had nightmares about there not being an end card at the end of a "Scott The Woz" video... and it happened...
ALL I SEE IS BLUE!!!
It’s the SAME END CARD.
It’s just blue
He fixed it!
thank you god for fixing this
Fun fact, the Wii U natively supports Gamecube games yet they never put them on the virtual console, even after making an adapter for Gamecube controllers, which couldn't even work in the wii mode outside of brawl. They really hate the Gamecube don't they.
Luckily homebrew exists, too bad Scott's too stupid to get it to work.
@@Xelical tru
I mean if you had two options to port games and one was “the system that revolutionized 3D games” and the other was “the third worst preforming console” which one would you choose
@@phet1211 They run natively, there's no port needed, other than perhaps tweaking how the triggers work.
At least we can use the adapter on the Switch!
10:38 the most accurate description of microsoft that i have ever heard
Too bad you didn’t talk about the weird region locks on some of these systems. For example the Nintendo DS wasn’t region locked and I was able to play USA imported games on my EU DS. Now the 3DS was region locked, but only for 3DS games. I can still play my imported regular DS games on my EU 3DS... Talk about confusing.
It would be more confusing if it somehow added region locking to original DS games.
Some US Nintendo DS games are region locked, like the Brainstorm Series Treasure Chase.
@@fingrati That's because it's not a normal DS game, it's a DSi enhanced game
That's why you hack the damn thing
Am I alone in thinking this doesn’t sound particularly confusing? “I was able to play my games, now I’m able to play my games.”
Must be more confusing for owners of an NA 3DS. But I don’t know that I’ve ever heard someone complain about it. Does Mario not come out in every region? Zelda? Insert Nintendo evergreen franchise here?
alternative title: scott shows off his dust collection
15:28
"Stubble Scott isn't real, Stubble Scott can't hurt you."
*Stubble Scott:*
Cursed
My dad has been a lifelong gamer and was enough of a sucker to buy a PS3 at launch. Playing all my PS2 games on PS3 as a kid was a dream, that champ of a launch model is still going strong and while it is mostly regulated to a streaming device today, I always appreciated it’s backwards compatibility. How else was I going to experience Lord of the Rings Return of the Kind on the main family room TV
Wait, if Scott evades, then how is he paying a virgin tax?
@Brendan Milburn Couldn't the IRS just track him through his virgin tax bills that are included in his electric bill? I'd imagine that his address would be on file.
@@four-en-tee he clearly lives on a different plane of existence between worlds
He’s just built different
Major companies: Backwards compatibility is hard to do tho!
Emulation teams: Reverse engineering software they know nothing about to make games playable on a completely different platform with near infinite possible combinations of hardware and software differences working off of donations and volunteer work then releasing it for free.
“Pick a core, any core.”
(Picks one)
“You have chosen... poorly.”
I don't think people realize that if they made more consoles backwards compatible how much it would increase cost. Emulation team takes countless hours and typically years before quality emulation starts to come about because how complex emulation is to develop. I'm a Software Dev/Security Analyst, the amount of time and effort it takes to reverse engineer something is absolutely staggering and most of the time, just isn't worth the effort. That same concept applies to major companies because they have to pay devs or buy licensing to third party emulators. Either way it would always increase the cost of the console so most opt out of wasting that time.
At some point, I mean, just re-release the console. Yeah, I know, piracy blah blah. It’s not like people don’t do that already on PC, if they’re so inclined. A new SKU of PS3 might not sell, since everything of note on that system is on newer hardware, but a reissue of the PS2 Slim could be cheap and a multi-million unit shifter.
@@WiseEXE not to mention the fact that
A) As Scott mentioned nobody actually cares and I believe Sony and Microsoft have numbers supporting this
B) Legal side, companies are more at risk by selling it in a product! Free emulators usually have a lot of bugs, might not handle a lot of games and can be known to crash hardware etc... but it doesn't matter with those because they aren't a bought product and so dont have to work. A feature on console by law has to work and work well in a way a consumer can use without risk. Ofcourse it can have limited support but the support it has must pass quality control tests.
Exact reason why we couldn't purchase game boy advance games on the 3ds
Hopefully by the end of the year, I’m going to have a PS5 and fat PS3 hooked up to my 4K set.
25 years of gaming bliss.
That was my plan. Unfortunately, the thicc boi PS3 is a solder re-ball job waiting to happen. And it got tired of waiting, in my case. Still lasted about 12x longer than my launch 360, but sooner or later, an old console will find ways to screw with you.
I’ll get it fixed, but it won’t be by mine own hand. With a soldering iron, I’m exceptional only as a notorious killer of motherboards. The scourge of PCBs, and the despoiler of integrated circuits. With one or two scars to demonstrate that my “talents”, such as they are, are not limited to irreparably damaging electronics.
To be fair, Microsoft *had* to use emulation for backwards compatibility because the processors used completely different instruction sets, so I really couldn't blame them for that.
i know it's completely unrelated, but i love your profile picture
Not only is Backward Compatibility going bye bye, but also Scott's Outro annotations.
I'm glad he's making videos about gaming in general rather than individual games but sheesh dude, you stayed up till 1am to post it? You need to get some sleep to grow your beard
Are you two in the same time zone? It would've been about 9 am that he posted for me but that's crazy if he was editing/waiting for youtube to upload at that time. He strikes me as a Tom Scott type to have videos unlisted until the right moment
@@yadsewnde He lives in Ohio, so Eastern Time. I converted from my time zone.
@@yadsewnde @
U can schedule a time for upload a video, he could have uploaded this a long time ago but UA-cam makes it private until a certain then it goes public.
It wasn't until I dusted off my mom's old Wii I realized I missed out on an entire Gamecube library.
SNES: "Wow, those are some impressive specs. I bet you don't even need an adaptor to be backwards compatible!"
Switch: "Backwards what-able?"
"Yeah, sure, when I learn the error of my ways!" was an excellent line.
he will at some point
this post was made by pc gang
@@bowltm it's PC Master Race get your old memes right
@@Lunarfox imagine getting worked up over a joke
@@bowltm imagine getting worked up over a joke
I WAS ABOUT TO SAY “ISNT IT SCOTT DAY”
It's Scott Day
SCOTT DAYYYY
SCOTT DAY?????
*SCAWT DAE*
SCOTT DAY BABY
beginning of the video: "in case I get lasagna on my wii u"
end of the video: Got lasagna on his wii u.
I see it coming a mile away but I still giggle like no other. that's called charm
I just noticed how awkward Scott’s hands are when recording him playing handheld consoles
8:12 Jesus CHRIST Scott really threw Sega under the bus, pissed all over their corpse, and cremated them, because this was brutal
Hi, Chris!
I’ll be honest: as someone who never sells any of his old games, but doesn’t have enough space to plug in every console, backwards compatibility is something I might be missing more than anything else from my gaming experiences
I don’t remember how I found Scott, my friend asked me if I know who Scott the woz was and I literally had no idea who he was, then for some reason the words, “hey yall, Scott here” sounded so familiar to me, then I watched a video and never questioned it, watched basically every episode sense that day
That's basically what happened to me. I don't even remember how I knew that a channel called "scott the woz' existed, but I did somehow. Then I fell in love at first sight
Scott is able to do something like nostalgia-playing. You know these „Strangely Familiar Places“ videos? It's showing pictures of places that you've never in your life been before, but it still somehow feels like you have some kind of nostalgic bound to it, like you've been there as a kid, allthough you didn't.
The part of Scott's videos that triggers it the most is his outro. The music and the blue backround just feel like you've been knowing both for your entire life, it has always been in your head. Comming to think that Scott made this channel in 2012, still needed some time to gain popularity and that I'm literally 15 years old, still needed many years to be allowed to watch UA-cam and just recently discovered his channel.
It also has many factors: The way Scott looks, moves, talks, his way of always starting videos with the words „Hey all, Scott here“. It feels like I've been knowing this guy for my entire life and it frightens me...
same
To this day I still don't know whether it's "hey yall" or "hey all"
Hey ALL
I bet all of Scott's videos are so rewatchable.
I have rewatched the dark age of Nintendo comp over 5 times now and there is no way I am stopping until at least 20
I like how Scott's introduction has, over the years, slowly become increasingly smarmy and insincere
I was having a terrible day...
... and then Scott uploaded
same tbh
Same
I thought it was cool that the Wii U basically had an entire Wii inside it. It felt like getting 2 consoles in one without knowing it.
It's only cool if you don't already own a Wii
I never had a Wii, so when the WiiU came out I happily got one for that fact it played Wii games as well.
That was the reason I bought a second hand Wii U. With both the Wii and Wii U games there was a ton of more games I wanted to play than on any other console.
You might be the only Wii U owner in the world that didn’t own a Wii.
The Wii won't play Betamax... the biggest tragedy in video game history :'(
Scott's growing a beard. Ever since he talked to that woman he's been losing his virginity powers ever since.
"There's a virgin tax?"
Oh man, I guess I’m an *alleged* tax evader now.
Always has been.
@@rita-Shi-Mi isn’t that meme dead
@@elvisking1150 not in my heart
Is that a Gex quote?
"I just have to accept the fact that I'm never going to get that all-in-one box I always wanted"
It's called a computer, Scott.
Reading instructions on how to run an emulator? No way! That's too hard. I just want to put the disc in and play.
@@HoangNguyen-ej4wb Ewww you still put discs in? Gross.
@@MikeLikesChannel eww you don’t respect people who like enjoying games differently than you gross
Not really. Emulation is not 1:1 in the slightest. Not to mention it’s literal piracy
@@treyjudah Stop taking yourself so seriously. Physical media has been dying for years, 90% of games don't even see a physical release. Skate to where the puck is going.
Backwards compatibility is really nice. I appreciate it when I can still play my old games on an upgraded system. DS and 3DS games are some of my favorites, very glad I can play those all on one system. Still keep a DS Lite around if I want to, say, transfer Pokémon up from the GBA games.
So happy you covered this topic, I'm the 1% That's absolutely cares about backwards compatibility. To the point that it was one of the main reasons why I moved on to PC, I could play from game boy games to Xbox games on my pc. Although playing on emulators helped me understand how hard it is to make a console backwards compatible, it's 100% worth putting back compatibility on consoles to prolong the life span of games imo or else I'd still be breaking the law by playing jet set radio future on my pc. If I can't easily get JSRF I'm gonna find a way to play it cause godDAMN do I feel funky when I play that game.
Same here. I moved to PC gaming before the PS4/Xbox One were released, and now I'm thinking of getting a PS5 because I could get to play some PS4 exclusives I missed.
Same
@@csir62 dude it´s not even about "if I can´t easily get JSRF" sometimes you basically can´t AND the PC community does awesome stuff like online modes with pirated old games.
Id say with the outcry lately for bc its way more than 1%
Backwards compatibility is fundamental for me, I'm poor
True! Also, my backlog is so huge I don't know when I'll finally play all the old games that I wanted to try.
Same, that's why I picked the next gen console I did, tf makes you think I can afford all new games.
Just dont throw your old consoles away the second a new one comes out.
@@thelegendofstonecoldstevea3205 Sadly, my apartment doesn't have room for my NES, Genesis, SNES, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1 - 3, and all my Xbox's. Also, this doesn't include my handhelds like Switch and 3DS.
Thanks fully, many of my old consoles I gave to younger family members, so I may be able to play them again assuming they didn't sell it.
But is Scott The Woz backwards compatible? 👀
why are you here
Yes
what do u even do with gaming ur a grown-up who watch cartoons
zoW ehT ttocs
I don't think it's compatible
I think he is backwards compatible with JonTron
As someone who didn’t have a PS4 and now has a PS5 I can say that backwards compatibility is the best thing ever. I’ve been playing all the games from PS4 that I missed out on and I haven’t even touched any of the actual ps5 games that I own
I wish I could get a PS5
Even more, imagine if the only thing you could play would be PS5 games and had to buy again all PS4 upgraded games?