Pemalite said:
I can see WHY you would want backwards compatibility from a business standpoint as the Xbox 360 users would essentially be locked into the next Xbox's platform.
However, if it drives up the price then I'm not for it, I would rather they spent the money on a better Graphics processor so my PC would benefit greatly from it.
With that said, The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3's CPU is slow by modern standards, especially when compared to x86, which is to be expected, they are over 7 years old.
So if they can get the IPC up substantially on the newer consoles, software emulation should be relatively feasible which would be cheaper than a hardware implementation like with what Sony did with the early PS3's.
But if anything is to go by with the PS4, the next Xbox will probably be going with a heavily threaded Netbook/Tablet x86 class processor which probably isn't going to be up to the task.
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You're not familiar with this rumor I guess.
Microsoft is going to sell a no disc drive "mini" xbox 360 for $99. This is a fully functional XBOX 360, it just can't play discs. However it is also designed as a companion app to the 720 to allow bc. It's hooked up/plugged in so that the 720 controls everything. It's equivalent to having native backwards compatibility at this point. No emulation is used.
