Sony and Microsoft are trying to appeal to the kinds of people who will never buy their console, while pushing away the gamers who were hoping for a gaming machine.

They should have spent their money on BC, instead of voice recognition, hand gestures, skype, built in camera, and all that other crap that no one was asking for.

These people are idiots.

When the entire staff "roundtable" at Gamespot said "no one cares about BC, and if they do they'll get over it", I realized at that point that all those people are blithering idiots.

I wonder if they even saw the comments at that point.? One thing's for sure - their credibility is shot to ****

Wow

Look at the stuff that it will do . . . that NO ONE CARES ABOUT.

The Text Box - cuz sound is overrated.

@Phazevariance Probably a bathhouse in SF

The Flex Box - most muscular console ever

@Rusmurf The Wii . . what?

For $500 and the price of one game, most people can update their processor and gpu, to higher specs than these consoles have.

I thought these people would know that.

"I don't want Illumiroom and Kinect."

Most people don't.

I don't know how these gimmicks ever make it to the final product.

No BC ended up with PS3 selling only 1/3 as much as the PS2 did.

These guys have actually convinced themselves that BC doesn't matter, facts be damned.