User blog comment:Damac1214/What I'm looking forward to with the Next-Generation of video games/@comment-4778612-20130227041342/@comment-1142365-20130227202118

Why not buy the old consoles? Most people who buy a PS4 will have a PS3, and the older systems aren't exactly pricey. The reason the PS4 does not have backwards compatibility is because to do so would require throwing in the fat PS3's hardware into the PS4 as well, and that would raise prices so much that it's not worth the lost sales for Sony