Sooo you're telling me that if MS was actually winning this console war, you would be able to play your 360 games on the XB1? Are you sure you've been supporting them the whole time? I'm pretty sure that BC option was coming alongside the TV support and the internet always requiring connection. /s
They didn't listen to the gamers either so don't try to pull that crap, they listened to their wallets whimper. Keep supporting them and lying to your self though....spoken like a true gamer.

@Zombie

And? What's your point? Don't talk about "what if" this and "what if" that, because the fact of the matter is that these features exist and they're awesome to have. I would much rather have BC, EA Access, UI improvements, and highly-sought-after features/updates than not have any of the above. At the end of the day, having the option is better than not, no matter the angle you look at it.

And you're absolutely right, the reason this is happening is because MS had a disaster of a reveal and they're in second place to Sony. But why does that matter? We got all of the above and more out of it, so who cares about their reasoning behind it? Everything that came out of it benefits me and other gamers, so isn't that what matters?

@aconnellan Well it matter in context. You have someone pledging continued support of xbox consoles for this reason, so their reasoning matters. The one time xbox viewed themselves as king of the mountain they wanted to kill used games, then charge you for borrowing games along with all the other stuff. Now that BC has come about simply because they started losing this gen so badly, I'd say counting on MS to stay that pro consumer no matter what isn't exactly a safe bet.
Now if you're talking just this gen in its current state, then yes, you're 100% right, but in the context of what zombie was replying to... not so much.

Floored by the down votes here.

There can't seriously be that many of you who don't see the benefit of keeping your old system after a new one releases, right?.... Right?

To put it another way, (not that this will appease many of you) I didn't buy my ps4 to play the games I can still play on my ps3, nor did I buy my ps3 back in the day just to be able to play my library of ps2 games on it..

The only people I can see legitimately being upset over this are people who skipped the previous console iteration for whatever reason are the folks who only bought an xbox last gen. (last gen did have a lot of people boarding the 360 train, so i'm not surprised many of them would want to delve into the ps3's more varied catalogue after having missed 7+ years of games for the system)

You forgot to add no new games.

Yup i love playing backsward compatible games its cool i can play both xbox one and xbox360 games just wish max payne 3,fight night round 4,sonic generation, were available on xbox one backsward compatible

I have a larger hard drive in my PS3 and PS4. Luckily my PS3 doesn't need more as the 2tb is maxed and my PS4 has 6tb and I'm currently using 4.5tb

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse