Oh and online will have to be free. I'm not paying

"In addition, a "senior Sony official" who asked to remain anonymous told the site that the PlayStation 4 unveiling this week "at first caught Microsoft off-guard." This person added that, "We definitely ruffled some feathers."

Sony PR people are so full of shit it just amuses me each time I see a quote from them. All Microsoft has to do is announce backwards compatibility and PS4 will look much less appealing. One day Sony will wake up and realise that this power struggle they are having with Microsoft has done Sony very little good.

for a minority yes, but alot of player can care less about backward. hell I remembered buying the ps3 day one for that. the only ps2 game I used was ff12 .... no wait megaman collection too.


it will appeal a bunch of hardcore player, but not so much.

Sounds pretty reasonable. Let hype die down for the PS4, and before E3 to stop the hype for that. A quiet period with a few good games but nothing huge makes it a good time to show their new console.

How would you feel about emulation like how they handled BC with 360? By only making the most popular games of last gen BC?

I'm not sure, as I never tried the emulation on the 360. However, I think the main point is that gamers would loved to not only play current gen PS360 games on their PS720, but ultimately that they don't have to pay for those game again, especially if they have a perfectly good copy of the game sitting in their libary. If you do have to pay for the emulated games, I think they would have to be vastly discounted.

Agreed - kind of like in game voice chat. But such features makes the console a bit more appealing than the other that does not have it.

Good.

Still gives Sony about two months to do as much as they want before the MS announcement. Then the real war begins.

BC is a thing of the past, I'm afraid. Why give it for free when you can monetize it in other ways?

WiiU and 3DS both have BC