If MS's next console isn't BC, 360 games will die out...

Think about it. Everyone knows that your 360 is eventually going to break. At maximum I'd say it lasts about 4 years (if more it will still eventually break soon) so if MS's new console isn't going to be BC eventually no one will be able to play 360 games (as they will stop making 360s). Not like the N64 or something which just doesn't break. Just a random observation I made.

I hope all system developers have learned from sony's stunt. At least I try to think that they do.

I beleive after the fiasco with Xbox BC they stated they had obtained the rights to the chip this time around and that any follow up to the 360 would be fully 100% BC.

If not, they they had better hope this repackaging they are supposedly releasing next year is super reliable or i'm going to be hella pissed when I have to wait 150 years fo PC emulation to be able to handle 360 games.

I'm sure I won't be the only one a tad "annoyed" if the new MS console, doesn't support backwards compatability for X360 games.

Why wouldn't they?

I believe in our current situation with console gaming  you expect all the current and future console to have BC

It will be, don't worry.

Honestly I probably wouldn't care. By the time we get t another console, 360 games will be out of date. My PS3 isn't BC, but their aren't any PS2 games I feel like I need to play. But still, it's a nice feature t have just in case. Weird though. You have a good point. 

They need to either develop a fully reliable 360, or a backward compatible new console, or we are screwed. Although someone will eventually develop a bootleg 360 or an emulator for PC to play the games, but both of those will be a long while before they are functional.

The news I'm hearing is that the next Microsoft console will be an iteration on the 360 hardware with Natal built in, so that would mean it's definitely backwards compatible.

The larger question is what happens to all your 360 games when the Xbox goes full digital download?  I'm not saying it will be anytime soon, but I'm interested to see how well the PSP-GO is received by the gaming public and how Sony solves the problem of purchased UMD games. 

Well if it's the 2010 console, which I feel is just going to be more of a repackaging of the current hardware with some slight changes, then they most certainly will have bc...I'm having a hard time picturing MS just flat out releasing a new console with no bc.  Their console is tremendously popular now as are many games on the platform and I just don't see them abandoning their base this time.

I don't see why they wouldn't have backwards compatibility im think there the only console maker who has it this generation even though it is limited.