To be honest, if I currently owned a console, backwards compatability would be well down my list of "purchasing requirements" for a new console. I'd want something that plays, looks and sounds remarkably different from anything before.
At the moment I'm rather drawn to the xbox360, but I don't like the tacky white colour of it's exterior, and nor do I trust it's noise levels - I'm not sure if later revisions have fixed this.
It seems Sony has scared off developers with it's complex system architecture - but who knows, maybe developers will 'see the light' and start to move towards it.
I'm not sure about the Wii - it seems they've focused on the user interaction more than anything, and being the pessimist I am, I predict lots of Wii components starting to fail just outside of their warranty...
I want to see how this console war plays out over a few months.
At the moment I'm rather drawn to the xbox360, but I don't like the tacky white colour of it's exterior, and nor do I trust it's noise levels - I'm not sure if later revisions have fixed this.
It seems Sony has scared off developers with it's complex system architecture - but who knows, maybe developers will 'see the light' and start to move towards it.
I'm not sure about the Wii - it seems they've focused on the user interaction more than anything, and being the pessimist I am, I predict lots of Wii components starting to fail just outside of their warranty...
I want to see how this console war plays out over a few months.