Would rather have the diversity of the spec ops missions any day then boring ass zombies. How people still gleaned any enjoyment out of Black ops Zombies after WaW is beyond me.

Spec ops is fun, but it's far from diverse. Tell me we haven't seen a co-op horde mode variant with mediocre AI. Zombies really is what makes Treyarch's CoD special, without a doubt.
While yes, MW3 is a fun game, I just haven't had as fun as I did with the previous 3, and it still does feel entirely too copy-paste. The game plays it safe, and on an artistic standpoint, is hardly what we can consider experimental. Then again, not flaunting the formula, but people don't seem to be responding to MW3 with the same energy as, again, the previous 3--it's starting to lose that thing that makes it special because of lack of innovation--people can see that lack of quality. I see the game fading in the future, unless the coming gen brings a new engine and revised formula to keep the game fresh.

Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.

@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol

Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.

If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite

I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.

I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.

Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.

We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.

I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.

I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.