I am a bit disappointed that they decided to go with a matte exterior for the slim rather than the glossy shine of the original but I suppose it won't stop me from purchasing it when the time comes. I'm gonna wait at least a few months to make sure no hardware issues come up though...

360 gets blazing hot, so does my pc video card, etc etc. These new consoles/cards get REALLY hot and they are designed to take this kinda heat. You are fine. Do you think the R&D only tested these in rooms at 48°F? Enjoy your console dude.

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Well the failure rate of the 360 seems to say otherwise... I've had a couple of graphics cards with crappy stock coolers slowly rise in temperture(though not insanely hot) until they finally gave out one day even though they were running perfectly fine up till their death. Too much heat will degrade any hardware over time. Though I'm sure the consoles can take a beating, I always play it safe and make sure they are extremely well ventilated.

I'm assuming the PS2 is extremely hard to emulate, hence why they had the actual chip in the original PS3. Go try to emulate a sega saturn or something on your PC. Good example of something that is dang near impossible to emulate. Something things just can't be done (with a reasonable amount of effort / and or ROI in Sonys case)

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Correct me if I'm mistaken but there already ARE PS3s with software emulation.

I agree with the others saying this is just a ploy to increase profit and that we'll be seeing BC back in the future. Sony has pulled this type of stunt oh so many times. I really do love backwards compatibility however since I have a lot of consoles and never enough video inputs. The PS2 has a huge library and I still have a bunch of games I haven't touched yet. With my ailing PS2 I'm hoping this feature comes back soon. I admit though that I wouldn't have issues with this if they never promised this feature in the first place only to have it taken away so soon. >_>