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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 3924125" data-attributes="member: 2477">What's crummy about 360 BC? I mean, I don't have every game by a long shot, but the titles I still play have all worked great.Anyway, the Xbox couldn't be built profitably, so it makes sense to kill it and force a jump to the new system. The 360 will continue to drop in price and the possibility is there for long term use. I doubt they'll do it simply because there won't be the sheer demand for it, but it's a possibility.The new "Xbox originals" downloadables is a good example of that, but yeah, paying $ for something you can find cheaper on disc (used, granted), and not being able to "digitize" your disc for a reduced fee... It'd be interesting though, if they could find a way to register a gamecode, without being able to pick up a used game and use it for a price break.They've said they are, but it's not a sure thing, obviously.Mind you, the internet is never a good way to judge a person, but since the start you've posted in an anti-MS/ pro-Sony style (at least IMO), so that's generally how you're responded to. I myself had a RRoD by Halo3, but I also had a defunct original XBox and my brother is on his third PS2.Meanwhile, my Sega Genesis lasted forever! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />On the tech side of things, I think all of them are just hoping for tech to resolve in such a manner that they can provide dirt cheap consoles later on, but I don't know that the PS2 experience is repeatable. I saw somewhere that the PS2 parts in the PS3 cost $50ish, and I can't imagine that the actual PS2's made now cost $50ish!Sony's BC problem is $. They had to cut the cost of the unit (cutting the chips helped) to lower prices. They don't want to pay for software emulation, so that's off the table. From what I gather, the 80's BC is subpar compared to the hardware of the 20/60, and they won't be improving on it. It's a dead deal for Sony right now.Granted, MS might only have Bob in Accounting's teenage son working on BC on his weekends for $6 a day, but they DO have someone there. They just released a bunch more titles (none of note <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Nintendo just sells you old stuff, no need to monkey with BC.</blockquote>

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