[QUOTE="hellhund"] Why would you expect them to? Backwards compatibility has always been a iffy thing, and its too expensive most of the time any more. It'd be nice, but there's no reason to actually think they will.Truth_Hurts_U

Only reason 360 didn't have full BC was because of Intel and Nvidia owned the rights to the chips. MS didn't want to buy them at expensive prices. So they ended up programing some games to be BC.

So this time around MS made sure they own the rights to the chips. So we can expect them to work something out next gen for BC. Will be great if they stick to what they said and give us BC.

Artical from 2008 talking about BC, Gears 3 and 2012 launch.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55347

Artical from 2009 talking about the ATI GPU, BC and 2012 launch.

http://www.gamezine.co.uk/news-story/2009/10/14/amd-deal-for-xbox-720-makes-sense-for-backwar

[QUOTE="Cerberuspledge"]

Developer Diary 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkALhh82JdI

Planeforger

[QUOTE="hellhund"]

Three companies would normally be unsustainable (i.e. colossal failure that was Gamecube), but the Wii has managed to different enough and appealling enough to stomp the other two companies. This made it easier for people to justify owning multiple consoles, instead of latching onto a single one. If the next generation has three consoles as similiar as I expect, one of the companies is going to tank. It'll be three similiar consoles with motion controls.

Crumblet

Colossal failure that was Gamecube? It was only 2 million behind the Xbox in sales:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_generation_consoles#Worldwide_sales_standings

And three companies are normally sustainable. There has never been fewer than three companies competing at any given time.

And the numbers would've been worse if not for the extra million sold dirt cheap once they stopped being manufactured. You could pick them up for pocket change.

I prefer the DS3.

Thanks everyone. I have netflix on wii and am extremely happy with it, but I am considering a ps3 also (to use on a second tv) and just wanted to know if a ps3 would be okay or should I buy another wii for the kids to play in their room.

dewc1

Three companies would normally be unsustainable (i.e. colossal failure that was Gamecube), but the Wii has managed to different enough and appealling enough to stomp the other two companies. This made it easier for people to justify owning multiple consoles, instead of latching onto a single one. If the next generation has three consoles as similiar as I expect, one of the companies is going to tank. It'll be three similiar consoles with motion controls.

[QUOTE="kuraimen"][QUOTE="-Snooze-"]

It's an FPS ... A very shooty FPS.

Does Killzone have a good story? Infact, what FPS does? Only the odd shooters like Bioshock.

-Snooze-

Obviously Story isn't important in a lot of games. Mario seems to do well with no story.

[QUOTE="hellhund"][QUOTE="erglesmergle"]

Oh god dont let it be an MMO. Please dont let it be an MMO. Please dont let it be an MMO that Activision has control over. Please dont let it be an MMO period.

erglesmergle

Dont forget, you'll also need the activation code that comes only in the Modern Warfare 3 box to access your quest list.

I get very few games on my PS3... Only exclusives.

Everything else goes to my Xbox. My hope is that MS is going to fuly support all 360 games on their new console.

Truth_Hurts_U