it's nice to have Backwards compatibility but we want new IP the most,when i go my FAT ps3 i only used it for 10:00 just checking Silent hill 2 is working ,my first PS1 demo disc is working and that is it.

I cant imagine not using it , cant freaking wait to gain all that space and lose all those wires , power brick , 3 controllers , Kinect 1 and wires , the console itself , whatever games get approved is fine with me , I can live without the ones that don't ....

There are millions of 360 users in the wild that have yet to move to next gen. Many users are still buying 360 games. The 360 is still widely popular. Now they can take advantage of the crazy trade ins and still play their 360 games on the XONE. Yes it's a big deal, and a potential game changer. People don't like rebutting and renting games they already own. It's why Yoshida was shocked when Microsoft revealed it and why Sony fans keep downplaying it.

I believe it's too late for Microsoft to strike back at Sony. The gap is just to big and keeps growing every month.

But what BC does do is give Xbox fans more choice and more incentive to upgrade to X1. Tales of vesperia and lost odyssey plz Microsoft.

I've definitely noticed a change in the media since Microsoft E3 conference this year, Xbox had a rocky start, yes but Microsoft have made huge strides in improving the Xbox and BC is the latest move which for me, and I'm sure many other gamers is a bloody huge deal I mean just look at the activity on the voting page for BC and tell me no one cares about BC? pfft it's a ridiculous claim made (mostly) by people jealous that PS4 doesn't have free, almost 1:1 bc

Yea Microsoft had an amazing e3 halo 5 and tomb raider. :yawn:

Another day, another article where people are trying to downplay something that's nice to have but on the competition's console. Funny how that works when they can't have that themselves, ever.

I also have to laugh at them playing the ''game changer'' card, because no one ever said it was. It's just something that'll make people think twice about their 360 for the future.

Wrong timing at launch would be very nice because the lack of games, two year later it wont change nothing. If im wrong next month Microsoft will sell 300k a week or more. Thats a game changer everything else are gamers that cant accept the fact that the PS4 is the first choice by a huge margin of gamers and getting bigger as we speak.

Ps3 got at launch and Wii U also, but it didnt change nothing. Even being at launch.... There arent any type of secret sauce that will change this generation.

Gamer wont stop playing Forza 5, horizon, COD, Halo MCC, Gears, Sunset, Batman, Destiny and so on to go back and play 360 games.

After DGPU, ESram, CPU power, overclocking, the cloud, and so on. Now we get the BC game changer news after news. When will this end.

Oh lord! This article would have had some weight behind it had this been directly after MS's Presentation. But now that E3 is over and the fanfare and fervor is subdued... The industry and gamers by large have spoken, MS had an excellent stronger than usual conference... But Sony still won.

In the end though, gamers are pleased
with both companies showing. But here's what I don't get... Everyone is bitching about remasters and rereleases and said that the next gen is filled to the rim with remasterremasters, but you all cheer for Backwards compatibility to play old games that are already getting remastered, nearly two years into the life cycle... What's more.

Who buys a Next console to play last generation games via bc, but complain about old games being rereleased with better performance?

What ever works I guess, you Xbox fans are confused

It's not that Microsoft had a great showing. It's that this was the first one in a while that wasn't a train wreck. So now Microsoft fanboys are walking around with their chest puffed out with a false sense of bravado.

Let's count the ways this article made subjective biased comments:

"The biggest news came from Microsoft as they decided to prove a point in the gaming industry." "...it sent shockwaves all over the gaming stratosphere."
No. Backwards compatibility didn't. The excitement didn't even last til the end of the presser.

"The PS4 didn’t have the best exclusives in its first year with quite a shallow launch lineup." Subjective. Sales for Sony's games during the first year blitzed MS's, so I'm unsure where you're getting this "fact" in your "well written article."

"...today over 20.2 million units sold is no small feat by Sony." It's not. But they sold at least 22.7 million. Sony rep said 24 mil during a VR demo.

"The less said about ‘The Order: 1886’ the better." As a person who actually played the Order, I beg to differ. Perhaps you should try playing it, rather than pushing the mob mentality. You don't deserve to write if your facts are based on others' opinions.

I'm done reading this to be honest.

hahahahahahahahah NO!

It was a good solid show but whether they were able to convince you to get a Xbox One is a matter of taste.

Personally I feel that Microsoft relies to much on shooters. The PS4 gives me more diversity and more importantly more Japanese support.

Xbox One Backwards compatibility is a great feature for people who actually have Xbox 360 games on disc. As for everyone else, it's pretty useless.

Sony fanboys are just salty that they are getting milked to play old games on Greedstation 4, cry me a river ponies!

I don't think BC is the greatest thing ever but after all the money i spent on building my 360's library it helps to know i and fellow gamers like myself didn't toss that money out the window.As far as PS4 is concerned it's still the better console,but to me XboX is the only one i need.It's all about personal preference.

The Gears 4 demo was disappointing.

I love the series but that demo was Gears of Walk.

The amount of butthurt fanboys so incredibly worried that another console has BC is just amazing. You guys will say anything to try to downplay it. Myself, I havent played Halo Reach for instance so I will be using it for that. I game mostly on my PC and last generation I favored the PS3 so there is plenty in my back 360 catalog I wouldnt mind booting up. Here is the good part, it doesnt cost me a dime to play them.

You would have thought PSNow was the 2nd coming at the time it was announced. Of course then the ridiculous pricing was released and that downplayed the fanfare somewhat. At least with MS it wont cost me anything and it isnt subject to if my internet is having an off day.

If free BC had been announced by Sony then you guys would have pronounced it game over and another in the long list of vaporware "megatons" that were announced at E3. Personally, I think the announcement of BC, a new controller, windows streaming, DX12, Hololens were heads and shoulders above any announcement of a game I already played umpteen years ago (and I have on PC), 1 that hasnt started yet (with a KS mind you) and a game that looked like crap that was announced years ago (TLG) was just a joke. UC4 looked good however and my bet is it does show up next year, around Christmas time.

When you havent got anything worth talking about now, you talk about the future. 44 exlusives this year my butt. Persona 5 will be great, but again its coming to PS3 and it isnt like Persona games push the graphics envelope. In addition, almost everything good they pretended to have at E3 will be available on my PC anyway which actually manages to go above 30fps.

The BC might just convince me to sell my 360 and get another One.

Shockwaves??Aside from the BC news their whole conference was a bust.

It was just a repeat of the past few years.

Halo,Forza,Geow with a few other titles here and there.

If anything the one who created shockwaves at E3 was Sony with their FF7 remake,Shenmue 3 and TLG reveals

I really don't get the no games argument. Sony had some nice exclusives to start the year, and now they get the best console versions of the big multiplats to finish it.

I have more games than I have time to play. Still working on The Witcher 3, just picked up Arkham Knight, MGS5 is out soon, Fallout 4 shortly after, then Battlefront.

Hell, even The Taken King should be fun for awhile. Ditto Black Ops 3. AC: Syndicate looks like a good comeback game for the series.

This is the ideal year for Sony not to have their big exclusives drop during the Holidays. There's a ton of heavy hitting multiplats to close out the year.

BC was requested by who?
XBOX gamers!
Not fanboys or dillusional journalists!

We asked and MS answered, it is a win win, no other way to spin it!!

I have never witnessed the amount of crazy from a company, and their hardcore fans that I've seen over the last year and a half.

From unplugging kinect when they said it can't be done to saying a game is 1080p when only the cutscenes are. The price point is all over the place with freebies galore.

Not to mention all of a sudden resolution doesn't matter this time around, the cloud, dx12, and now a virtual tv screen for oculus so they can claim they have VR.

I'm very confused by MS smoke and mirrors this gen. Maybe that's the point, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

Microsoft's press conference was indeed great. But the amount of bombs that Sony dropped?! They stole the show. The real winners are gamers though

Nice article looking forward to the future of my xbox now guys glad i sold ma ps4 now was a bit worried to start with but i just prefer xbox padnothing against sony i dont really care for fan boys at all i like what i like simple as

As I've mentioned previously as nice as backwards compatibility is, it only has the possibility of changing Xbox One's lacklustre (compared to PS4, not compared to Xbox 360) sales in 2 regions. US and UK. The Xbox 360 strong holds of last gen.
Everywhere else in the world Sony owns at the moment as the PS4 is selling like cakes that are hot in those regions and that won't stop this gen. The brand is just too strong there and so far Sony have shown they understood gamers, better than Microsoft did (TV, TV, TV.....TV, TV).

If the sales change in the US and UK, it will be only a temporary spike, IMO, as most hardcore gamers have already made their choice this gen and have either stuck with Microsoft or jumped to Sony, if they weren't already Sony fans. The world-wide sales number reflect this, IMO. Therefore any spikes in sales will be the few Xbox 360 gamers left who were fencing sitting.

So look out for Sony to reach 24-25 million units world wide by the end of 2015, with Microsoft hitting about 14-15 million. I think these figures are conservative for both manufacturers. Maybe Sony will hit the 2x sales over Microsoft by the end of its first 2 years of sales. Time will tell :)

They had a decent showing. Sony, Ubisoft, and Bethesda were far above the rest though

People keep forgetting that the Kinect focus was a disaster during the Xbox one launch because it coincided with the NSA revelations.

BC is cool but the list of compatible games is tiny right now.

Xbox e3 was definitely decent.

Sony's conference was basically the best conference of all time. The FF7 announcement is the stuff of legends (like HL3 etc).