well I think so. I've put a lot of time into both games and I prefer Forza a lot more.

Console, launch window, first and third party games, some apps and services, cut the 1.5 hours of bullshit, replace some tech demo's with gameplay.

Not that hard to beat PS4's presser realistically.

Games.Not just shooters and racers but alot of different genres.

Illumaroom

I dont care about Halo and Forza. Maybe a new3 Gear of War game. But beide that only some new IPs from Microsoft will interest me.

I like how a lot of Playstation fans make it sound like having multimedia features is a bad thing. It is not. It is a big plus in the real world.
MS did an awesome job to secure Live TV and entertainment apps way ahead of the competition.

I want to see new XBL features. The facebook integration is not that appealing for me, because none of my actual friends is a hardcore gamer like myself. They play some Fifa, CoD or Halo every now and then but that is it. Showing off a video where I am the Rul0r at an FPS must seem weird to my co-workers, ex-girlfriends and my boss.

I want a new Halo, because I am a fan.  I want them not to change the controller much and a more precise Kinect.

They need to focus on things that aren't Kinect 2.0.

Source for this? Because it's really, really hard.

According to leaked specs Durango will sport basically the same CPU as the PS4 ( an 8-core modified AMD Jaguar at the same clock) with a slightly poorer GPU part.

Thus they have to deal with the very same architecture change as PS3->PS4: from in-order PowerPC to out-of-order x86-64. There's not nearly a big enough leap in computational power to allow real-time software-based emulation. Code structure changed as well, because -yes- directx, but the 360 setup -as all consoles- had its peculiarities. So I can see only 3 ways:

1) every 360 title has to be ported, recompiled and made available for download. Reuiring investment by the original developers who own the code, for very low return. Can't see this happening save for a few titles, same as HD remasters in this generation.

2) a version of the original hardware is included, like in ps1-to-ps2 or ps2-to-early-ps3 or GC-to-Wii. This brings the price up and make the engineering and production harder. Possible, but unlikely for economic reasons. I think MS will rather spend that money in keeping the inclusion of Kinect affordable as that ties in with their living-room hub strategy.

3) something like xbox-to-x360 is pulled off, which as I understand was a partially out-of-band  version of emulation where you downloaded a profile that offered sections of recompiled code for the new CPU and JIT library call patching. I think something similar happens with the downloadable PS2 games on PSN. Again, this time there's a much lesser computational power leap, so that sounds unlikely for demanding titles. Could work for some smaller downloadable games.

All in all, I can see them offering compatibility for a selection of their first party big guns, but not a general purpose solution. So... source?

Is it not obvious?
They just need to show next Xbox and i'm hooked.
Few new games will be nice too (like Epic game based on Samaritan demo).

I really don't get all this doom threads about MS. Xbox sold great in January and I have big selection of third party games to play (why not MS games... maybe internal studios working on games for next Xbox?).
I'm also excited about new Kinect. It is always had potential, but tech was not ready.