Of course they're expecting huge sales. People have been holding off all year. They need to release all that pent up money in one big blast all over Microsoft's face cum holidays.

Wow, what an incredibly inaccurate clickbaity article, but then I see who the OP is and am not surprised.
Well, at least we have learned that "a string" can mean two (2) games.

Most people don't sold there old consoles so backward compatibility won't have big effect on Xbox one

*Lana's Voice* YUUUUUUUPPPP.

What are you saying man? BC is the biggest gamechanger of them all, it's going to move billions of consoles!!

(Seriously though, no offense to anyone, but it annoys me so much how people are overreacting to this whole BC announcement. How can you essentially reduce MS's conference to that?)

Because it just so logical that a person who has a X360 which plays all X360 games will all of a sudden decide to get rid of it and purchase XOne so he can play only a portion of those games.

I could see Microsoft advertising this and tricking people into upgrading before they realize what it really means (to be fair... like Sony did with the Vita initially).

Why would they? They'll likely continue to sell the most home consoles, and they generated the most publicity at E3 to boot. It's not like they've been punished so far, so why change?

Sony has
battlefront advertising,
Call of duty advertising
Hitman advertising
Just cause 3 advertising
Assassins creed advertising
Uncharted collection
Metal gear solid advertising
Price cut

Does anyone really think Sony is going to lose by hundreds of thousands? Like last year?

pre-season bruh