Porcupine_I on 20 November 2012
i always said they should not bother with backward compatibility built in, but rather design the console with a hardware expansion slot and sell it as a separate feature.
that way they can keep the base cost for the console down, and earn some extra money by selling the expansion.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
