Just curious on this. People are getting quite riled up over the new gen consoles, and current gen ones not being backwards compatible. This really isn't a new thing
Sony kind of tried with the PS3 at first and it failed dismally, and i'm not 100% about microsoft, but i think their attempts were pretty woeful too.
But.. since i started gaming on consoles.. i couldn't play Sega Master systems games on the megadrive, or NES games on the SNES, or SNES games the 64... etc etc, so why such a big deal now?
Just curious. I understand it would be nice and handy to have, but why is it now such a big issue?