Stationary position

Last week i was grumbling about Sony's refusal to partake in backwards compatibility. Well, a thought van must've been driving by my house as rumors have been floating around recently about Sony dusting off the PS1 and making it available to the retro market.

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Still not sold. Sure the NES mini may have been massive sellers but I do not see Sony falling over backwards to resurrect backwards compatibility having ditched it long ago. A quick look at the PlayStation services offered online and whilst there is plenty of support for the PS3 onward, the list of PS2 games is small and the list of PS1 games is non-existent.

Come on Sony, you can do better than this.
You have to if you want to bring me back from the Valve pool

Mass Effort

One can only wonder.

Jump in my car

So there's a game doing the rounds on the PS4 called Detroit: Becoming Human.

Thing is everyone's calling Detroit - which is funny to me because I recall in 1994, a game called Detroit on the Commodore Amiga. It was a management sim where the player ran a car-manufacturing business.

I assume this....Detroit: Becoming Human has nothing to do with cars?

Sunset on the Eighth Age

Perhaps the most significant news for this week was the announcement from Sony that the PlayStation 4 is nearing the end of it's life cycle.

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In a way perhaps this should not come as a surprise. The current console generation (eighth) started in 2013 and it's been five years - the usual amount of time for any console generation. So does this mean the ninth console generation is just around the corner....?
Or most likely it is already underway with the release of the Nintendo Switch.

In any case, the news of the PS4's march off of stage is meaningless to me. Ever since the PS3 callously ditched backwards compatibility, I divorced the PlayStation and have never really looked back. No doubt Sony will repeat their familiar tactic of offering some new tech with their new console (ie PS2 = DVD, PS3 = Blu-Ray, PS4 = 4K UHD....kinda) but Sony's cavalier attitude to their history still doesn't sit well with me.
A wise man once said: you can't scrap a library's worth of gaming from the outgoing console and call it an improvement. For Sony to increasingly move away from backwards compatibility, when they originally introduced it with the PS2, is mind-boggling to say the least.
I am open to the potential PS5 being completely backwards compatible but, what are the odds of that happening?

We like the Moon

Apparently there's an anime movie in the works based on indie darling To the Moon.

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Seems Grave of the Fireflies has some competition for 'biggest tear-jerker'

Falcon Around

Ya gotta love Sieg.
He's the only sane one in the entire party

Who ya Gonna Call?

Hey Estelle, does a trip to New York appeal to you?!