Quote from: WinterActual on May 28, 2013, 12:59:31 PM
Both MS and SONY will NOT bother developing any sort of emulation for the previous gen because they are chasing their business interests after all.
We live in the era where people are paying 10$ for skin for their weapon. The same people will buy the new Xbox and will not bother buying another prev gen box just to play some titles they want to. Why should MS include emulation in the Xbox None? They don't have to and they don't care. They know they will earn more money if they restrict their consoles to play only the same gen games as the console.
The times when the big sharks cared about their customers are long gone.
I am more eager to see what the Steam Box will do against MS and Sony.
Well, the flip side of this is that backwards compatibility would make the new Xbox the logical choice for 360 owners when it's time to migrate to the new generation. Without it, there's no advantage for them in the Xbox 3 over a rival platform, so Microsoft stand to lose chunks of their existing user base (especially with all the bad press they've been accruing since the big reveal).
It still pays to listen to your customers and cater to their needs (yeah Microsoft, unbutton that blouse and cater to my needs), because it'll make money in the medium and long term. A lot of big companies are short-sighted and focus narrowly on the strength of next quarter's bottom line (especially publicly traded ones who have to appease their shareholders), but not all of them.
Steam Box has the potential to be huge (especially with Valve behind it, in my opinion the industry's brightest company), but so far their message has been very mixed. I'm having a hard time figuring out where they've drawn the line between console and computer, and I think they'll have great difficulty marketing it. It doesn't sound like they're planning a sweeping campaign like a typical console launch.
