Eric’s comment should highlight why Sony fans are losing ground.

With PS4, you pay an exorbitant fee (a monthly fee) in order to play PS3 games. With the Xbox One, you pay nothing to play your 360 games, and in fact are recouping further on your original investment. You say this isn’t forward thinking, but any financial investor would say otherwise.

There are also three important aspects on the Xbox One which have still not come to fruition.

– Directx 12
– Cloud rendered games (think Titanfall)
– Windows 10 – (allowing mobile phones, tablets and PCs to all play the same game at once).

Eric, this is innovation looking at you in the eye. As time goes on, the Xbox One gets better because it is essentially a virtualized end point. I can’t explain more than that at this point.

i believe the key word in backwards compatibility is backwards. xbox is struggling to keep in this current gen of gaming and is struggling to add “value” to their console. If their endgame is to turn their console into an emulator for 360 games i wouldn’t consider that a win. i like the idea of backwards compatibility but feel the this is just a smokescreen to distract from lacking hardware. Having half the consoles as the ps4 on the market also means that free gold games are more costly for xbox to offer than ps plus, so xbox can now tap into their 360 catalog for no extra cost.

PS4 will never be. It is the exact reason Microsoft did. Sony won’t drop PlayStation now and all the work they’ve put into it to compete with Xbox. especially since it must’ve been hard to do. Ps4 isn’t going to be backwards compatible because it already makes too much money not being. It’s an incredibly smart move. It’s going to be hard for sony fanboys to defend their console when everything great about it comes out next year. If this is sony’s peak for PS4 and Xbox one is constantly improving, then the winner of this gen’s console race isn’t based on the start but at the end.