Backwards Compatibility - Scott The Woz

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  • čas přidán 17. 10. 2020
  • Scott’s compatibly backwards.
    Twitter: / scottthewoz
    Facebook: / scottthewoz
    Instagram: / scottthewoz
    Music Used:
    “Title” from Super Mario Maker 2
    “Title” from Super Mario Bros. 35
    “Cave” from StarTropics
    “Stage 3 (Mad Forest)” from Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (NES)
    “Labyrinth Zone” from Sonic the Hedgehog (8-Bit)
    “Swimming (Super Mario Bros. 3)” from Super Mario All-Stars
    “Bramble Blast” from Donkey Kong Land 2
    “Music Type B (Single Player)” from Yoshi’s Cookie (NES)
    “Boss” from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
    “Star Maze” from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
    “Storm Eagle” from Mega Man X
    “Lab Stage” from Bomberman Max 2
    “Through the Forest” from Kirby’s Return to Dreamland
    “Purple Coins” from Super Mario Galaxy
    “Funky’s Fugue” from Donkey Kong Country
    “Breakout” from 3D Dot Game Heroes
  • Hry

Komentáře • 7K

  • @purplebatdragon
    @purplebatdragon Před 3 lety +5855

    Multibillion-dollar tech company: It's just not feasible with the current hardware.
    Some guy in a basement: I did it.

    • @adammiller8133
      @adammiller8133 Před 3 lety +156

      But at what cost

    • @danielgertler5976
      @danielgertler5976 Před 3 lety +618

      It's more "it's just not profitable for us so we won't bother"

    • @Why_It
      @Why_It Před 3 lety +372

      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.

    • @lowqualityvideos8091
      @lowqualityvideos8091 Před 3 lety +45

      **cough** ps3 backwards compatibility **cough**

    • @horacegentleman3296
      @horacegentleman3296 Před 3 lety +120

      A NECKBEARD BUILT THIS IN A BASEMENT WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS

  • @FransenYT
    @FransenYT Před 3 lety +5119

    “Who doesn’t like having all the consoles in the world?” I have never heard such a powerful flex

  • @ak17ooo83
    @ak17ooo83 Před 3 lety +2937

    Scott took the time to cook up some lasagna and place it on his Wii U just for a 5 second joke.

    • @aubreyh1930
      @aubreyh1930 Před 3 lety +273

      Scott does so much for his jokes even though they’re usually only a few seconds. So much respect

    • @stormedapple9317
      @stormedapple9317 Před 3 lety +166

      This man has a stupid amount of dedication to his jokes

    • @Sonicfan2474
      @Sonicfan2474 Před 3 lety +61

      Free sea of thieves item for every chips ahoy! Well don’t mind if I do.

    • @2BrosOfficialGaming
      @2BrosOfficialGaming Před 3 lety +11

      @@aubreyh1930 Isn’t your profile picture from a Chadtronic video where he asked everyone to put that as their profile picture

    • @ITDBruins
      @ITDBruins Před 2 lety +11

      i hope he enjoyed the rest of the lasagna~

  • @DE23
    @DE23 Před 3 lety +448

    "BAM! It's a Wii now"
    PS move in a Nutshell

  • @NintendoCollecting
    @NintendoCollecting Před 3 lety +12830

    It is good to know that Woz the Scott is backwards compatible

  • @mrcheese6247
    @mrcheese6247 Před 3 lety +3506

    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

  • @boopergoober
    @boopergoober Před rokem +334

    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.

    • @minix07
      @minix07 Před rokem +10

      It said on the box, but then again I doubt they would read it.

    • @erikstensaas1202
      @erikstensaas1202 Před rokem +2

      That's going to be me in due time:)

    • @dabbasw31
      @dabbasw31 Před rokem +13

      Probably very few. The GameBoy was a much larger thing than the SNES, not to mention the Super Gameboy. :)

    • @XxfireboiixX
      @XxfireboiixX Před rokem +4

      Everyone knew Gameboy

    • @tirididjdjwieidiw1138
      @tirididjdjwieidiw1138 Před rokem +2

      the gameboy is one of the most sold gaming devices in history

  • @tazinboor3913
    @tazinboor3913 Před 2 lety +703

    “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?

    • @partitionhlep
      @partitionhlep Před 2 lety +1

      my social skills will always make me mess up no matter what

    • @frosting4443
      @frosting4443 Před 2 lety +1

      Weeks of practice

    • @chad9166
      @chad9166 Před rokem +3

      Because they're simplistic reddit humor

    • @AliceArt985
      @AliceArt985 Před rokem +13

      @@chad9166 why are you replying to 9 month old comments on videos you clearly dislike

    • @tazinboor3913
      @tazinboor3913 Před rokem +4

      @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.

  • @project_boredom2940
    @project_boredom2940 Před 3 lety +4292

    Is no one gonna talk about how Scott is starting to grow a beard?
    He’s finally going through puberty!

    • @SquidSystem
      @SquidSystem Před 3 lety +401

      if he just stopped playing donkey kong barrel blast he could have kept his virginity and grown a wizard beard way sooner

    • @metallicoustic6733
      @metallicoustic6733 Před 3 lety +150

      2:55 "this was the peachfuzz era of Scott the Woz videos"

    • @TheZoenGaming
      @TheZoenGaming Před 3 lety +43

      He must have been inspired by Linus over at LTT!

    • @joshshrum2764
      @joshshrum2764 Před 3 lety +25

      It’s the alternate reality remember he broke reality.

    • @UkeofCarl
      @UkeofCarl Před 3 lety +8

      I’m not going to.

  • @mrsushi1192
    @mrsushi1192 Před 3 lety +926

    *if scott's growing a beard, he's gonna be a man, and then who will whine about ziplash now?!?!?!?*

    • @floopusdoopus
      @floopusdoopus Před 3 lety +23

      Everyone else, we are losing soldiers fast though. It’s almost like they don’t care.

    • @777JonT
      @777JonT Před 3 lety +4

      His girlfriend.

    • @papyrussemi2848
      @papyrussemi2848 Před 3 lety +10

      Nobody, he already defeated it.

    • @theinimitablejora522
      @theinimitablejora522 Před 3 lety +8

      He got it out of his system for 46 minutes, don't worry. He finished the fight.

    • @josephwaul6137
      @josephwaul6137 Před 3 lety +4

      Adult Scott, probably.

  • @lcslndmt
    @lcslndmt Před 3 lety +1457

    Playstation 4 owners: "We want backwards compatibility!"
    Sony: "Fuck you, buy our remasters."

    • @MuchWhittering
      @MuchWhittering Před 3 lety +81

      Sony even has a working PS2 emulator running the PS2 on PS4 range.

    • @osossosouu
      @osossosouu Před 3 lety +4

      @@MuchWhittering really?

    • @hamad9068
      @hamad9068 Před 3 lety +8

      Phantxxm
      Yeah

    • @itadapeeza8559
      @itadapeeza8559 Před 3 lety +17

      Sony are scumbags

    • @cscscscss
      @cscscscss Před 3 lety +79

      Fixed.
      Sony: "Lol no, pay for 144p gameplay with our all new PS Now"

  • @susie_gaming9699
    @susie_gaming9699 Před 3 lety +202

    i honestly adore backwards compatibility, it’s introduced me to so many really good games like bioshock infinite

  • @gggggart8732
    @gggggart8732 Před 3 lety +5148

    I respect that Scott consciously knows that he should buy a PC and just doesn't because he's stubborn

    • @spork8655
      @spork8655 Před 3 lety +314

      I you're willing to spend some more and do some futzing around, it is by far the best game platform in my opinion.

    • @aaronsound
      @aaronsound Před 3 lety +273

      Pc is the best gaming platform objectively but the price especially now is kinda steep.

    • @rxzd_
      @rxzd_ Před 3 lety +132

      @@Wab2007 yar har fiddle dee dee

    • @Wab2007
      @Wab2007 Před 3 lety +43

      @@rxzd_ diddleee dee indeed

    • @MostafaElSakari
      @MostafaElSakari Před 3 lety +15

      Pc is only better for fps games

  • @yellowpie
    @yellowpie Před 3 lety +521

    I like the bit where it’s implied Nintendo has a photo of a person to not take phone calls from.

    • @SakuraStallion
      @SakuraStallion Před 3 lety +51

      You're right, they probably have multiple.

    • @alexread6767
      @alexread6767 Před 3 lety +35

      Does Scott face time them

    • @Jackie-fw3hr
      @Jackie-fw3hr Před 3 lety +27

      He calls twice a day to report lasagna on the console

    • @FusionFall20
      @FusionFall20 Před 3 lety +8

      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...

    • @techy804
      @techy804 Před 2 lety +1

      @@FusionFall20 Ah, so your the Brandon that Steve from Customer Service was going on about...
      JK I just wanted to make a funny comment.

  • @themelbornememer9575
    @themelbornememer9575 Před 3 lety +198

    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

    • @waled7564
      @waled7564 Před 2 lety +6

      So then the emulation is for you

    • @georgec9384
      @georgec9384 Před rokem +5

      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.

    • @eliptical7033
      @eliptical7033 Před rokem +5

      @@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.

    • @Alex-hj2jd
      @Alex-hj2jd Před rokem

      Do not get the switch then. No backwards compatability is one of many Ls for the switch.

    • @jeremywj
      @jeremywj Před rokem +1

      @@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.

  • @SomeoneIDKK
    @SomeoneIDKK Před 3 lety +131

    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.

    • @brucecipher
      @brucecipher Před 2 lety +5

      Huh. Really? 🤔

    • @Web720
      @Web720 Před 2 lety

      On what part? Is it the bonehead decision to use quad polygons instead of the traditional triangles which made it difficult to emulate?

    • @brucecipher
      @brucecipher Před 2 lety +6

      @@Web720 the part with Minecraft and Dreamcast discs

    • @SomeoneIDKK
      @SomeoneIDKK Před 2 lety +2

      @@Web720 I think it was with the hardware or smth. I heard it from Didyouknowgaming.

    • @Web720
      @Web720 Před 2 lety

      @@SomeoneIDKK Thanks!

  • @TC_Games1
    @TC_Games1 Před 3 lety +800

    Mysteries of the world
    1: The Bermuda Triangle
    2: The Rosetta Stone
    3: Scott’s Endless Video Game Budget
    Edit: What Is Even Happening?

    • @JordanSchorMusic
      @JordanSchorMusic Před 3 lety +53

      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

    • @tuxinatux
      @tuxinatux Před 3 lety

      Money

    • @theactualfunnylord5307
      @theactualfunnylord5307 Před 3 lety +12

      Probably 50 cents with how CZcams would treat him lol.

    • @will-eh3qt
      @will-eh3qt Před 3 lety

      Ayeeee go Rangers

    • @jester.ytt0
      @jester.ytt0 Před 3 lety +1

      *Here before the comment blew up 🙏*

  • @ratchetxtreme6591
    @ratchetxtreme6591 Před 3 lety +356

    "Atari couldn't just look pathetic , they were Atari "
    - Scott

    • @tubegerm6732
      @tubegerm6732 Před 3 lety +7

      i watched the video, you don't need to quote it.

    • @swagster700
      @swagster700 Před 3 lety

      Bababooie

    • @hadifdanish4728
      @hadifdanish4728 Před 3 lety

      He is not wrong.

    • @Kemoclout
      @Kemoclout Před 3 lety +3

      @@tubegerm6732 so ppl cant comment their favorite quotes from a video?

    • @Dreemore
      @Dreemore Před 3 lety +1

      @@tubegerm6732 still funny though lol

  • @christopherwinko1978
    @christopherwinko1978 Před rokem +42

    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.

  • @LalitoTV
    @LalitoTV Před 2 lety +173

    "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

    • @Supersayainpikmin
      @Supersayainpikmin Před rokem +6

      Honestly, in both cases, I don't understand the issue.

    • @Daniel-dc9sp
      @Daniel-dc9sp Před rokem +10

      Fortunately that capacity of playing GBA games natively makes a hacked 3ds the perfect handheld for playing all nintendo's handheld catalog

    • @gh0stcassette
      @gh0stcassette Před 3 měsíci

      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

  • @nickkenny5263
    @nickkenny5263 Před 3 lety +537

    Backwards Compatibility: Doesn't Exist
    Scott's Wallet: *Guess I'll Die*

  • @MoonLight-zj8iu
    @MoonLight-zj8iu Před 3 lety +1183

    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

    • @anthonyvelasco5288
      @anthonyvelasco5288 Před 2 lety +44

      I never knew it until a few years after I gave away my wii for a wii u

    • @TezMei
      @TezMei Před 2 lety +58

      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

    • @Coolman13355
      @Coolman13355 Před 2 lety +49

      Shoot the Gamecube controller ports aren't just there for GC backwards compatibility. Wii games can use them too.

    • @techy804
      @techy804 Před 2 lety +11

      my family didn't realize it until a decade after we got it and I wanted to use my GC controller for MKWii

    • @n646n
      @n646n Před 2 lety +1

      @@techy804 at that point just play mario kart on the gamecube

  • @iansantiago6526
    @iansantiago6526 Před 2 lety +78

    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.

  • @captaincomet9963
    @captaincomet9963 Před rokem +6

    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.

  • @yurnan911
    @yurnan911 Před 3 lety +888

    Hes growing facial hair GUYS HES GROWING FACIAL HAIR OMG

    • @Dargonhuman
      @Dargonhuman Před 3 lety +96

      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!

    • @PorkpieJohnny
      @PorkpieJohnny Před 3 lety +30

      WHERE

    • @Dargonhuman
      @Dargonhuman Před 3 lety +63

      @@PorkpieJohnny On his face?

    • @PorkpieJohnny
      @PorkpieJohnny Před 3 lety +31

      @@Dargonhuman AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • @yerrmc
      @yerrmc Před 3 lety +35

      @@Dargonhuman This was unnecessarily funny lmao

  • @alexandereaton7983
    @alexandereaton7983 Před 3 lety +369

    Total amount of Wii Us sold: 13 million
    Amount sold to Scott: 13 million

  • @Phorexigon
    @Phorexigon Před 2 lety +38

    "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!

    • @Supersayainpikmin
      @Supersayainpikmin Před rokem +17

      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.

    • @koruoshouji9960
      @koruoshouji9960 Před 10 měsíci

      Except it doesn't work with every game

    • @seereebee
      @seereebee Před 3 měsíci +1

      Some games have been delisted digitally unfortunately. So they're only playable through a disc.

  • @Morhamms357
    @Morhamms357 Před 9 měsíci +4

    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!

    • @dougtheghoul2845
      @dougtheghoul2845 Před 9 měsíci +2

      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
      @lakitudude7577 Před 7 měsíci +1

      None of what you said refuted him. Sure the wii u had backwards compatibility. Still sold like shit

    • @Morhamms357
      @Morhamms357 Před 7 měsíci

      @@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.

    • @PotionMaster21
      @PotionMaster21 Před měsícem

      @@Morhamms357 let him cook

    • @Morhamms357
      @Morhamms357 Před měsícem

      @@PotionMaster21Dawg had 5 months to come up with a counterargument and did nothing. I think I gave him enough time to cook.

  • @ChristopherMoom
    @ChristopherMoom Před 3 lety +497

    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

    • @Quinhala11
      @Quinhala11 Před 3 lety +5

      Bruh

    • @JackBradley07
      @JackBradley07 Před 3 lety +16

      Thats a fun fun fact

    • @zachatck6567
      @zachatck6567 Před 3 lety +2

      What does that have to do with this video?

    • @Lanausse
      @Lanausse Před 3 lety +2

      Dam lmao

    • @Lanausse
      @Lanausse Před 3 lety +20

      @@zachatck6567 Well Scott is in it. And he is talking about video games

  • @kayelaine
    @kayelaine Před 3 lety +716

    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

    • @skerpy
      @skerpy Před 3 lety +7

      Kayla, are you okay

    • @aubreyh1930
      @aubreyh1930 Před 3 lety +65

      @@skerpy of course they are cooking mama fucking slaps

    • @phantomnoodles8496
      @phantomnoodles8496 Před 2 lety +12

      @@aubreyh1930 indeed, especially shop and chop
      but i hate toast and eggs recipe, i always fail it even if it's only two steps

    • @willmcpherson2
      @willmcpherson2 Před 2 lety +3

      Yeah I grew up on GB/GBA/DS and PS2/PS3. Backwards compatibility central

    • @batvaleska
      @batvaleska Před 2 lety +1

      i think this is my favourite comment ever

  • @boogelymoogely8851
    @boogelymoogely8851 Před 2 lety +32

    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.

    • @chl_ca
      @chl_ca Před rokem +2

      i know it's completely unrelated, but i love your profile picture

  • @Carlama
    @Carlama Před 3 lety +41

    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

    • @luginess0
      @luginess0 Před 3 lety +3

      I wish I could get a PS5

    • @imnotbreno
      @imnotbreno Před 2 lety

      Even more, imagine if the only thing you could play would be PS5 games and had to buy again all PS4 upgraded games?

  • @DannyJennyArtz
    @DannyJennyArtz Před 3 lety +700

    "There's a virgin tax?"
    Well shoot, no wonder I can never afford food for years.

  • @MusicDecomposer
    @MusicDecomposer Před 3 lety +1557

    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_

    • @nebulosa553
      @nebulosa553 Před 3 lety +172

      at least there's dosbox thankfully

    • @saruboss18
      @saruboss18 Před 3 lety +150

      Emulators

    • @irrationallymadphysicist6945
      @irrationallymadphysicist6945 Před 3 lety +102

      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

    • @SomeOriginalChannelName
      @SomeOriginalChannelName Před 3 lety +22

      You can with Dosbox

    • @DemomanX614
      @DemomanX614 Před 3 lety +22

      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.

  • @ethangamer1600
    @ethangamer1600 Před 3 lety +18

    10:38 the most accurate description of microsoft that i have ever heard

  • @tgamer9159
    @tgamer9159 Před 2 lety +6

    Somebody converted the Gameboy player into a functioning Nintendo 64

  • @wendygo7962
    @wendygo7962 Před 3 lety +215

    "Imagine if this banana was an Atari 5200"
    The banana can probably out-power two of those...

    • @monkeydude124
      @monkeydude124 Před 3 lety +8

      I mean you can play dark souls whit potatoe graphics

  • @chillmccool
    @chillmccool Před 3 lety +531

    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.

    • @forrestthacker3922
      @forrestthacker3922 Před 3 lety +23

      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

    • @miac.8685
      @miac.8685 Před 3 lety +6

      Oh, thanks for the tip!

    • @girlwithoutafairy
      @girlwithoutafairy Před 3 lety +7

      Bruh you only need start or select

    • @starryrose6168
      @starryrose6168 Před 3 lety +3

      Does that include newer models or just the original 3DS?

    • @forrestthacker3922
      @forrestthacker3922 Před 3 lety +9

      @@starryrose6168 every 3DS has that feature as far as I know

  • @GMMReviews
    @GMMReviews Před 2 lety +11

    Pc Owners: "Let me just boot up this old DoS game fron the 90's on Steam real quick."

  • @Speckadactyl
    @Speckadactyl Před 2 lety +12

    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

  • @thevastmeow
    @thevastmeow Před 3 lety +530

    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

    • @nthgth
      @nthgth Před 3 lety +10

      The man knows funny

    • @derodainfamous
      @derodainfamous Před 3 lety +2

      Indeed

    • @raphaeldagamer
      @raphaeldagamer Před rokem +2

      Like that image that Nintendo sent to the guy who asked about SNES games on the 3DS

  • @ratchetxtreme6591
    @ratchetxtreme6591 Před 3 lety +151

    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 .

    • @TruTrae
      @TruTrae Před 3 lety +6

      That’s probably the reason

    • @zangoon4546
      @zangoon4546 Před 3 lety +48

      Honestly a smart move on their part! Both BC and gamepass actually made the console stand out

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 Před 3 lety +25

      It was the reason. That and the XBox One never recovered from the 2013 reveal.

    • @fallentrash1673
      @fallentrash1673 Před 3 lety +4

      That is the reason I play GTA 4 anyway 😂

    • @Ckoz2829
      @Ckoz2829 Před 3 lety +3

      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.

  • @ottomaticallyawesome
    @ottomaticallyawesome Před rokem +3

    I think backward compatibility is much more compelling now since, at least, the PS5 plays all PS4 games as good or even much better then the PS4 which increases the live of those games.

  • @YoutubePizzer
    @YoutubePizzer Před 3 lety +29

    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

    • @Clownacy
      @Clownacy Před 10 měsíci +1

      It isn't emulated: the Wii U just has a Wii inside it. They even share the CPU.

  • @thaismagalhaes5928
    @thaismagalhaes5928 Před 3 lety +1290

    Scott: "the master system wasn't the biggest success"
    Brazilians: so you have chosen death.

    • @MrDiana1706
      @MrDiana1706 Před 3 lety +89

      He obviously didn't mentioned it, he didn't wanted to go to Brazil

    • @liengandriod55
      @liengandriod55 Před 3 lety +29

      Are they still selling Sega consoles in Brazil in the present ?

    • @thaismagalhaes5928
      @thaismagalhaes5928 Před 3 lety +79

      @@liengandriod55 yes and no, SEGA license them to Tectoy, who keeps producing them.

    • @liengandriod55
      @liengandriod55 Před 3 lety +9

      @@thaismagalhaes5928 Ohh ok. Thank for the info 😊

    • @augsto12341
      @augsto12341 Před 3 lety +16

      Não achava que eu ia achar brs nesse tipo de video

  • @crispychungus
    @crispychungus Před 3 lety +155

    Scott: has 4 Wii consoles
    Me remembering the pal Wii U for we dare

  • @bredoffender
    @bredoffender Před 2 lety +3

    Why have I rewatched this more than 20 times help

  • @justanunlockyperson6389
    @justanunlockyperson6389 Před 3 lety +26

    I bet all of Scott's videos are so rewatchable.

    • @wolfnitezgamez939
      @wolfnitezgamez939 Před 2 lety +3

      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

  • @tjofcarolina1776
    @tjofcarolina1776 Před 3 lety +456

    Fun fact: on 3DS systems you can play DS games in their original aspect ratio by holding start as the game boots up

    • @brandonlewisgaming6982
      @brandonlewisgaming6982 Před 3 lety +6

      Cool but I don’t think anyone asked

    • @fusokku9212
      @fusokku9212 Před 3 lety +171

      Useful information is useful information

    • @Kat-pm3kd
      @Kat-pm3kd Před 3 lety +40

      I didnt know that, might try that out even tho i prefer the bigger aspect 👌

    • @hectrijo
      @hectrijo Před 3 lety +6

      I can confirm this

    • @BorislavVeselinov
      @BorislavVeselinov Před 3 lety +77

      @@brandonlewisgaming6982 Useful information is useful information, doesn't matter if someone asked or didn't ask.

  • @toastydick
    @toastydick Před 3 lety +493

    "The master system wasn't the biggest success" Clearly you're not european. or brazilian.

    • @Real1Gaming
      @Real1Gaming Před 3 lety +31

      It wasn't a huge success all over Europe. In Scandinavia for example, it failed pretty hard and NES ruled supreme.

    • @falo4043
      @falo4043 Před 3 lety +38

      @@Real1Gaming Well here in brazil even in the early to late 2000's some people still were buying it for some reason

    • @MegaManNeo
      @MegaManNeo Před 3 lety +26

      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.

    • @Golemoid
      @Golemoid Před 3 lety +12

      @@Real1Gaming Meanwhile in Poland, we had bootleg NES clone called Pegasus lol

    • @ctrlz7582
      @ctrlz7582 Před 3 lety +10

      The reason data says it sold more than the NES in Brazil is because it doesn't count NES clones

  • @bradensorensen966
    @bradensorensen966 Před rokem +3

    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!

  • @burrgurrandfrie8053
    @burrgurrandfrie8053 Před 2 lety +13

    I just noticed how awkward Scott’s hands are when recording him playing handheld consoles

  • @brendancorey7831
    @brendancorey7831 Před 3 lety +280

    Scott: posts at midnight
    Me: This is important.

  • @Pixelcraftian
    @Pixelcraftian Před 3 lety +1971

    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: 👁👁

  • @Sydney_Angelyt
    @Sydney_Angelyt Před 2 lety +4

    I use backwards compatibility all the time on Xbox One.
    Sonic Generations without long load times is amazing

    • @Sydney_Angelyt
      @Sydney_Angelyt Před 2 lety +3

      And I’m glad you just download an emulated version as my disc is scratched to the point it was unplayable on the 360

  • @stupidgenius42
    @stupidgenius42 Před rokem +4

    The “Wii mode” and GameCube mode on the Wii was there for 2 very important reasons, the first is because the Gecko chip present in the GameCube was also in the wii (kinda) so it had to switch what chip was managing everything. Second, it prevented GameCube game exploits from being used on the Wii.

  • @MiggsonMonday
    @MiggsonMonday Před 3 lety +311

    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.

    • @HoangNguyen-ej4wb
      @HoangNguyen-ej4wb Před 3 lety +7

      Many phones can play ps2 games now.

    • @MiggsonMonday
      @MiggsonMonday Před 3 lety +26

      @@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

    • @HoangNguyen-ej4wb
      @HoangNguyen-ej4wb Před 3 lety +26

      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.

    • @MiggsonMonday
      @MiggsonMonday Před 3 lety +9

      @@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.

    • @steelbear2063
      @steelbear2063 Před 2 lety +2

      I still play my PS2 games. And PS1 games as well. Thank you, backwards compatibility

  • @noahcon1131
    @noahcon1131 Před 3 lety +426

    “Nothing about that sounds even close to an idea, WHICH MEANS IT MUST HAVE BEEN A SEGA IDEA”
    Absolutely golden

  • @acehealer4212
    @acehealer4212 Před 2 lety +14

    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.

  • @colecarstarphen8226
    @colecarstarphen8226 Před 3 lety +3

    Scott will spend 1000 dollars for an 15 second joke

  • @kaydengower1533
    @kaydengower1533 Před 3 lety +149

    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

  • @supermariof0521
    @supermariof0521 Před 3 lety +487

    SCOTT: The PS4 completely abandoned backwards compatibility.
    MODDERS: That can be arranged!

    • @supermariof0521
      @supermariof0521 Před 3 lety +12

      @Lyra Heartfold True. But if there are official first party emulators for both systems, why didn't Sony take advantage of it?

    • @zachh2864
      @zachh2864 Před 3 lety +9

      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)

    • @wyattpeek429
      @wyattpeek429 Před 3 lety +3

      I still can not believe that modders got the master chief collection on ps4

    • @GrammerPancreas
      @GrammerPancreas Před 3 lety +7

      @@zachh2864 the PS3 is stronger than the PS4? Are you joking?

    • @AWISECROW
      @AWISECROW Před 3 lety +8

      @@GrammerPancreas I think they just mean the Cell Broadband Engine potentially and nothing else.

  • @awesomenintendoman7054
    @awesomenintendoman7054 Před 3 lety +12

    1:22 A perfectly timed reaction by Crash

  • @gamerboy298
    @gamerboy298 Před 2 lety +2

    This is my most important feature when wanting a console.

  • @Chlocean
    @Chlocean Před 3 lety +71

    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.

    • @agirlinsearchof9057
      @agirlinsearchof9057 Před 3 lety +1

      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.

  • @Onesadcatto
    @Onesadcatto Před 3 lety +337

    "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*

  • @talankirk6944
    @talankirk6944 Před rokem +2

    Steam Deck is the all in one box you’re looking for

  • @sillyfella2009
    @sillyfella2009 Před 3 lety +14

    Backwards Compatibility is a feature everyone wants but nobody uses
    Edit: i just realized Scott says this exact quote

  • @awesomeyoutubehandlewowitslong

    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.

    • @liambauer7057
      @liambauer7057 Před 3 lety +20

      no i think he just took a photo of the micro on carpet and chromakeyed the cartridge in

    • @TheDerpyDolphin
      @TheDerpyDolphin Před 3 lety +13

      I know right? I thought it was real at first and took me a second to realize it

    • @richesmovietrailers953
      @richesmovietrailers953 Před 3 lety +1

      The cartridge is chroma-keyed on. You can tell by the bottom right corner. Still cool shot!

    • @LazyGyro
      @LazyGyro Před 3 lety +9

      You can just photoshop it, it's a still image

    • @-KreedM-
      @-KreedM- Před 3 lety +6

      Can someone explain to me what the big deal is? Couldn't he just have taken a picture of the micro and the cartridge?

  • @Vailskibum
    @Vailskibum Před 3 lety +1296

    But is Scott The Woz backwards compatible? 👀

    • @VincentVictini
      @VincentVictini Před 3 lety +53

      why are you here

    • @nintenbound64
      @nintenbound64 Před 3 lety +7

      Yes

    • @omargt738
      @omargt738 Před 3 lety +17

      what do u even do with gaming ur a grown-up who watch cartoons

    • @theleafeonsalad
      @theleafeonsalad Před 3 lety +5

      zoW ehT ttocs
      I don't think it's compatible

    • @vonziie
      @vonziie Před 3 lety +10

      I think he is backwards compatible with JonTron

  • @jojo-ln7zd
    @jojo-ln7zd Před 3 lety +9

    Th e best form of backwards compatibility ever will be the Wii and the GameCube.

  • @F0RC0D3D
    @F0RC0D3D Před 3 lety +7

    6:39 that was perfect

  • @elimiller-buza549
    @elimiller-buza549 Před 3 lety +536

    you know microsft messed up when scott has to say the "forth generation of Xbox" so it doesnt confuse peopel

    • @crackerjack0349
      @crackerjack0349 Před 3 lety +3

      I’m confused

    • @uncannyplatypus2131
      @uncannyplatypus2131 Před 3 lety +61

      @@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

    • @ninjabluefyre3815
      @ninjabluefyre3815 Před 3 lety +22

      @@uncannyplatypus2131 They should have called it the Xbox Z.

    • @NativS2002
      @NativS2002 Před 3 lety +22

      @@ninjabluefyre3815
      YBox

    • @illford6921
      @illford6921 Před 3 lety +5

      @@uncannyplatypus2131 didn't they say it was just an ultra buffed Xbox One X

  • @Lumalee_Jay
    @Lumalee_Jay Před 3 lety +165

    I love the backwards compatibility on the Wii U, It lets me play the rare unreleased Super Mario Galaxy 2 game!

  • @tylerspeers2133
    @tylerspeers2133 Před rokem +4

    I've never seen one Wii U plugged in, four at one time is impressive.

  • @SaulVera
    @SaulVera Před 8 měsíci +1

    I think the MAIN reason for the lack of backwards compatible consoles is the fact that they bring security vulnerabilities from the previous console over. Jail breaks and homebrewed systems because of backwards compatible seems to be the #1 reason they don’t really do it anymore. And it’s why most of them are now download only games or emulated to avoid implementing hardware with vulnerabilities.

  • @swahilimaster
    @swahilimaster Před 3 lety +132

    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
      @jupita551 Před 3 lety +10

      Maybe he used it as a pot or plate? lmao

    • @PierceMD
      @PierceMD Před 3 lety +5

      That was a way to play one of the very few GC cooking games.

    • @WH250398
      @WH250398 Před 3 lety

      Was the "ravioli" brown, chunky, and smelly?

    • @swahilimaster
      @swahilimaster Před 3 lety +2

      @@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.

  • @Hyacinth828
    @Hyacinth828 Před 3 lety +176

    "Nothing about that sounds even close to a good idea. Which means it MUST have been a SEGA idea!"
    I died.

    • @ohsohatedkidd7068
      @ohsohatedkidd7068 Před 3 lety +16

      Just like Sega

    • @ahmadkazan7994
      @ahmadkazan7994 Před 3 lety

      @@ohsohatedkidd7068 just like a salty boomer that lives in 2006 who is pathetic enough find joy in hating a fictional character

    • @bakerdoze
      @bakerdoze Před 3 lety +2

      @@ahmadkazan7994 Uhh, context?

    • @BrianBurke06
      @BrianBurke06 Před 3 lety

      As a Sega fan I fucking hate the Saturn. Easily it’s worst console.

  • @harper_kenady
    @harper_kenady Před 9 měsíci +1

    I know this is an older video but the PS5 being backwards compatible with PS4 games is what sold me on it. I had never owned a Playstation prior and it had a huge variety of games I had always wanted to play. I saw that the PS5 was compatible plus a next gen console, I figured that was a better investment. Thanks Sony!

  • @Lightning-ig2do
    @Lightning-ig2do Před 3 lety +19

    It's always a weird feeling to me when you have a console just to play one game.
    I love Twilight Princess on the Wii U, but it's also the only game I play on Wii U.

  • @GameboyFanatic
    @GameboyFanatic Před 3 lety +250

    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.

    • @Xelical
      @Xelical Před 3 lety +38

      Luckily homebrew exists, too bad Scott's too stupid to get it to work.

    • @GameboyFanatic
      @GameboyFanatic Před 3 lety +3

      @@Xelical tru

    • @phet1211
      @phet1211 Před 3 lety +11

      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

    • @slosprint5
      @slosprint5 Před 3 lety +19

      @@phet1211 They run natively, there's no port needed, other than perhaps tweaking how the triggers work.

    • @TommyDeonauthsArchives
      @TommyDeonauthsArchives Před 3 lety +2

      At least we can use the adapter on the Switch!

  • @Puffinstuff
    @Puffinstuff Před 3 lety +239

    Last time I was this early, the only virgin tax was for having a Dreamcast

  • @aszear118
    @aszear118 Před 3 lety +10

    “It was 1982 the word graphics wasnt invented yet.” lmao

  • @FurryMcMemes
    @FurryMcMemes Před 3 lety +17

    I so love the Xbox backwards compatibility, especially on my Xbox One X. They look so awesome. So wanting a Series X though, hear the games look and play even better.

    • @Alex-hj2jd
      @Alex-hj2jd Před rokem

      If you want even better, try gaming on PC. Very fun

  • @SonicSammich
    @SonicSammich Před 3 lety +134

    "There's a virgin tax?"

  • @peytonhayes4123
    @peytonhayes4123 Před 3 lety +192

    i choked on air when he showed the gameboy micro next to a gameboy game

    • @oaedeoi
      @oaedeoi Před 3 lety +6

      I didn’t knew the gb micro is the size of a thumb

    • @TheFreakOnee
      @TheFreakOnee Před 3 lety +16

      dude that was definitely edited, it's not THAT small lol

    • @marmarchan69
      @marmarchan69 Před 3 lety +4

      @@TheFreakOnee woooosh

    • @TheFreakOnee
      @TheFreakOnee Před 3 lety +4

      @@marmarchan69 lol That doesn't even make sense there is no woosh happening here

    • @shardtheduraludon
      @shardtheduraludon Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheFreakOnee wooooshing someone is a way to indirectly tell somebody that they didn’t get the joke.

  • @jasminejohnston6393
    @jasminejohnston6393 Před rokem +2

    Playing GameCube games on a Wii is actually fun. I also have a GameCube which seems redundant but the Wii allows for a better experience with GameCube games than the actual GameCube…minus the boot up screen Easter egg but who cares it’s just a different sound effect

  • @goblincaveballs
    @goblincaveballs Před 3 lety +2

    Scott : backwards compatibility
    playstation : whats that ?

    • @sdewey4152
      @sdewey4152 Před 2 lety

      My 60GB NTSC PS3 is compatible with over 14,000 games.
      Shame it cost too much for the average scrub when it was new.
      (This is only about twice the amount of games released for Xbox, 360 and even a generation later...)

  • @dualitysystem8430
    @dualitysystem8430 Před 3 lety +279

    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.

    • @Activated_Complex
      @Activated_Complex Před 3 lety +18

      “Pick a core, any core.”
      (Picks one)
      “You have chosen... poorly.”

    • @xWiZ3
      @xWiZ3 Před 3 lety +37

      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.

    • @Activated_Complex
      @Activated_Complex Před 3 lety +5

      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.

    • @SambaJones97
      @SambaJones97 Před 3 lety +11

      @@xWiZ3 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.

    • @snowlunar7342
      @snowlunar7342 Před 3 lety

      Exact reason why we couldn't purchase game boy advance games on the 3ds

  • @jazzozo
    @jazzozo Před 3 lety +444

    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.

    • @AshBob5000
      @AshBob5000 Před 3 lety +41

      It would be more confusing if it somehow added region locking to original DS games.

    • @fingrati
      @fingrati Před 3 lety +7

      Some US Nintendo DS games are region locked, like the Brainstorm Series Treasure Chase.

    • @rebane2001
      @rebane2001 Před 3 lety +25

      @@fingrati That's because it's not a normal DS game, it's a DSi enhanced game

    • @diegodavid1955
      @diegodavid1955 Před 3 lety +3

      That's why you hack the damn thing

    • @Activated_Complex
      @Activated_Complex Před 3 lety +1

      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?

  • @nothing-mm8ui
    @nothing-mm8ui Před 3 lety +3

    you have seen backwards compatibility....
    now get ready for....
    *Forwards compatibility*

  • @juliamaria3807
    @juliamaria3807 Před rokem +5

    I think the person who gets the most use out of backwards compatibility is the one that's buying their first console. At least that's what it was for me with the 3ds. I didn't have an old ds to go back to, but half the games I bought were secondhand ds titles anyways.

  • @mynamewastaken4688
    @mynamewastaken4688 Před 3 lety +104

    “Not terrible, not amazing, definitely Microsoft”- So freaking accurate to this day

    • @mynamewastaken4688
      @mynamewastaken4688 Před 3 lety +8

      @@ayeayeayeeee Scott was talking about Xbox’s past when saying that.

    • @xyzzy64
      @xyzzy64 Před 3 lety +1

      "to this day" bro it's been 24 hrs

  • @beeter3588
    @beeter3588 Před 3 lety +212

    “I’m a man of science, not god”
    Also Scott: *top 10 commandments*

    • @emilianozamora399
      @emilianozamora399 Před 3 lety +11

      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!

    • @deathdeathrevolution3499
      @deathdeathrevolution3499 Před 3 lety +1

      wow, thats one of my favoratist of the 10 condements

    • @wb2444
      @wb2444 Před 3 lety

      timestamps

  • @Mateo-kf1ud
    @Mateo-kf1ud Před 3 lety +11

    0:04 This one's your primary Wii U, the one beneath is your secondary, the other two are Japanese and European ones!

  • @AxelWedstar411
    @AxelWedstar411 Před rokem +2

    SNES: "Wow, those are some impressive specs. I bet you don't even need an adaptor to be backwards compatible!"
    Switch: "Backwards what-able?"

  • @theflamelord
    @theflamelord Před 3 lety +157

    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

    • @eloy40x
      @eloy40x Před 3 lety +11

      Also, there's rom injection programs around the internet. I have a pretty good library of GBA games on my 3DS thanks to that.

    • @dragonballgacha
      @dragonballgacha Před 3 lety +6

      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

    • @HoangNguyen-ej4wb
      @HoangNguyen-ej4wb Před 3 lety +1

      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.

    • @eloy40x
      @eloy40x Před 3 lety +3

      @@HoangNguyen-ej4wb lol, check the official store. Refurbished 3DS and 2DS are actually quite cheap.

    • @HoangNguyen-ej4wb
      @HoangNguyen-ej4wb Před 3 lety

      @@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?

  • @Jyrem99942
    @Jyrem99942 Před 3 lety +80

    15:28
    "Stubble Scott isn't real, Stubble Scott can't hurt you."
    *Stubble Scott:*

  • @elryano2384
    @elryano2384 Před 2 lety +6

    I do actually love backwards compatibility

  • @boxthememeguy
    @boxthememeguy Před 2 lety +2

    Commodore did the same thing the Wii U did back in '85 with the Commodore 128. It had a "64 mode" where you would type "GO 64" in the command line or hold down the Commdore key at startup and BAM, it's a C64 now.