by Tanith » Thu Jun 20, '13, 4:02 am
I guess I'm not totally surprised by the price, considering my family already uses our current Xbox 360 for so much more than just gaming. But holy smokes, $500 is a lot, not to mention we'll still have to pay for our Live accounts (which is like, $100 a year or something like that).
From what I understand, the lack of backward compatibility is to be expected; this next leap in console technology just can't do both. I forget the reasons why, but the information about it is out there. That doesn't make it any less disappointing, but I'm sure if Microsoft could have made backward compatibility an option, they certainly would have. I'm bummed, because I want to import games from continuing series into the latest releases, and that's going to be a problem now. I'm pretty sure Sony has this issue between its PS3 and PS4 consoles as well. Kind of makes PC gaming look more and more appealing, doesn't it?
I think we'll eventually get an Xbox One, but not soon. I like Xbox Live about a million times more than the clunky Playstation Network, so if I had to choose between a PS4 and an Xbox One, Microsoft wins.