You should get a PR job at Microsoft. I'm sure this line of argument would help convince people.

They seem to be getting along quite well without my wit and charm. :|

This particular category of complaint is very, very common to people that don't understand the technology that they use past the "push shiny buttan on the ui" level. Anybody who has ever touched native code in their life knows that porting applications from different operating system versions--much less processor families!--is non-trivial. But to gamers, oh no, they need to be able to play an old game that technology has passed by--and yet, they specifically went out and bought a goddamned information appliance instead of an engine of computation that they could own and maintain themselves. They brought this on themselves.

Gamers are always "me me me, i want this, wah wah wah". There is not a single customer demographic I can think of that is less interested in understanding their tools and more vocal about the slightest inconvenience, real or otherwise. The worst of them are the ones that have nothing to do but pass of hatred and vitriol online to other gamers, sometimes even passing it off as "games criticism", like they're fucking Ebert or something.

And honestly, we caused this. We catered to gamers, we made their lives so simple and carefree and priced things so low that they are literally the worst customers on earth.

My friends in the web business? Look at this. Look at what these people have become, and expect the same sort of shitty behavior from your users in five-ten years.

What processor architecture is printed on the box? There isn't one. It is irrelevant. Backwards compatibility is a feature; it can be accomplished through a number of means. The Xbox One, as a product, either offers that feature, or it does not. Consumers, possessing the power of the purse, either accept the available features or they do not. The technical details, while very important to the engineers building the system, are irrelevant to the consumer.

> EDIT: Less insulting.

I can't even imagine what this looked like before the edit.

It was pretty bad, not gonna lie.

> Oh for fuck's sake the 360 was a PowerPC arch, and the new Xbox is x86.

And who's fault is that? The consumers? Microsoft is the one that's being "so dumb". People obviously care about backwards compat. and then they did this stupid bullshit.

> You know how PS3 used to support old games?

Ummm, the right fucking way? You know...by doing what it takes and giving the customers what they obviously fucking want?

Why don't you get your head out of your fucking asshole, asshole?