Oh, I didn’t mean to suggest that any standalone product from Sony would be a direct follow-up to the Classic (which, to be fair, I think suffered more from a then new crop of indifferent management than anything else...as the hardware itself was solid), merely that it would fill a similar niche and be distinguished…

I was always hoping that Sony would just say ‘fuck it’ and offer a super premium SKU that did exactly what you describe. I still wouldn’t put it past them at some point, perhaps as a kind of one-and-done PlayStation Classic that simply plays everything ‘so y’all can finally shut up now’. It’d still cost a packet,…

And we’ve all known that for quite some time. That’s my point, Zack’s presenting this tidbit as if it’s new news.

If you’re talking actual, proper backwards compatibility and not simply a classics program or streaming, I wouldn’t get your hopes up for anything beyond PlayStation 2 support. And even that seems like a long shot.

Something else of note is that nowhere on this page or on any other support page for the PS5 does Sony talk about or detail PS3, PS2, or PS1 backward compatibility in the PlayStation 5.

Honestly, I thought you were the one getting agitated. But, whatever. No harm, no foul.

But it doesn’t need to be. I don’t think many people are hung up on them needing to get one up on Sony in this very specific way because of this very specific past event. No one cares about this thing in the past that ultimately never came to fruition. 

And that’s an extremely fair point.

Like, did Netflix need to keep all the actors on retainer or something? I still don’t understand why filming season 4 couldn’t simply be postponed like evrything else. It’s not like conflicting projects are likely to crop up in the meantime for the same reason why GLOW was on hiatus.

I both enthusiastically second this idea and wouldn’t put it past Netherrealm to at least try.

Spiderman: Miles Morales (the standalone) is a free upgrade. Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and Horizon: Forbidden West are as well. That, off the top of my head, are all of the first-party and/or timed exclusive titles which are confirmed cross-gen. Third-party stuff is obviously more of a mixed…

I don’t think anyone believes Microsoft thought this was the same level of gotcha. On the other hand, I think everyone quite rightly believes that Microsoft has and continues to grasp at straws where legit potshots are concerned.

I guess the Ash dream is well and truly (evil) dead at this point.

I suspect it’s a little of column A and a little of column B. The dude’s basically just a hype man, and part of that job involves talking endless amounts of shit about the competition.

If only the rest of Sonic Adventure 2 hadn’t been terrible. Ugh...my eyeball still twitches a little when I recall those Knuckles stages.

It’s a silly, petty thing, but I’d bet dollars to donuts that Phil and co. were kinda sorta counting on Sony providing ammunition for Xbox’s own “this is how you share games” moment. (This latest flaccid effort following a number of equally anemic attempts by Aaron Greenberg himself over the course of the generation.)

There’s actually a fairly lengthy interview with William Zabka on the A/V Club. The nutshell version is that as the decade came to a close and his particular brand of eighties-style villainy was no longer en vogue, he did a lot of low budget, direct-to-video schlock and directed an Oscar nominated short film.

Cobra Kai shocked me both for how very much I wound up enjoying the show and for how rigorously it adheres to the ‘lore’ (for lack of a better term) of the four original films. (And, by extension, how much better it adheres to its own weird, internal logic than far less ‘throwaway’ shows.)

Cobra Kai shocked me both for how very much I wound up enjoying the show and for how rigorously it adheres to the ‘lore’ (for lack of a better term) of the four original films. (And, by extension, how much better it adheres to its own weird, internal logic than far less ‘throwaway’ shows.)

Cobra Kai shocked me both for how very much I wound up enjoying the show and for how rigorously it adheres to the ‘lore’ (for lack of a better term) of the four original films. (And, by extension, how much better it adheres to its own weird, internal logic than far less ‘throwaway’ shows.)