Their leader hasn’t been the same since he was rescued from a kidnapping, and what’s worse, there’s a mole hiding in headquarters.Ĭombining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform- adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers. When trying to meet a specific word count in writing a personal biography, Derek sometimes adds Oscar Wilde quotes, like, “Be yourself everyone else is already taken.Razputin “Raz” Aquato, trained acrobat and powerful young psychic, has realized his lifelong dream of joining the international psychic espionage organization known as the Psychonauts! But these psychic super spies are in trouble. A fan of classics as well as the latest and greatest, Derek balances sampling the newest entertainment media with revisiting the well of a (thankfully) never-ending backlog. After being immersed in nerd culture for many years, Derek is now happy to write about the media he enjoys instead of just ranting to his friends. He is a fan of science fiction and fantasy, video game and tabletop RPGs, classic Hong Kong action movies, and graphic novels. Derek majored in journalism and worked for a print newspaper before discovering the internet. When he is not writing, playing video games, watching movies or television, or reading novels or comic books, he occasionally takes some time to sleep. He lives with his wife, three dogs, and a likely excessive number of video game consoles. This leaves Nintendo as the sole outlier whose digitally purchased games have no expectation of support on any hardware other than the one they were originally purchased for, making the Nintendo Switch the worst choice for retro gaming fans.ĭerek Garcia is a Game Feature Writer for ScreenRant. Xbox has taken steps over the past generation to build that trust, and by honoring select prior gen digital purchases, PlayStation is working to rebuild consumer trust. Digital purchases have the advantage of convenience, and are less wasteful that physical media, but companies need to build trust if they truly want digital purchases to be less suspect for consumers.Īn assurance that a digital purchase on today’s hardware can likely be accessed on the inevitable next generation of consoles makes digital purchases a safer investment for gamers. The concept of game ownership is complex with modern consoles, with physical discs serving as validation keys rather than actual games, for the most part.
Players who purchased select original PlayStation and PlayStation Portable games through PSN will have access to those games on current hardware, soon, while Nintendo’s legacy console games remain locked behind the Switch Online subscription service.Īlthough Switch Online is better in Japan, with a more robust game selection, adding more games to the service does nothing to address the issue of legacy ownership, for those who invested in Virtual Console games. Based on announcements made alongside the newly revamped PlayStation Plus, Sony’s gaming ecosystem will also follow Microsoft’s lead in another important way.
The Switch only plays games made for the Switch, and does not support even Virtual Console purchases made through the 3DS, Wii, or Wii U.īoth the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles feature nearly complete backward compatibility with their direct predecessors.
When the Switch launched, it broke Nintendo’s consumer-friendly streak of maintaining one generation of backward compatibility.
Though it might seem counterintuitive to some, the Nintendo Switch is in many ways the worst choice for gamers who value prior generation games, as both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S have backward compatibility and honor digital purchases made through legacy platforms on current hardware.