Who is that genius who cam up with the idea not to support 360 games on One???

Actually, MS has been very up front and vocal about the Xbox One not being backwards compatible, from early on. Marc Whitten, in an interview with The Verge on May 21 of last year said that Xbox One would have no b-c of any traditional kind and it was widely
publicized that your 360 discs and arcade games would not work.

"No, there's not," said Whitten, when we posed the question. "The system is based on a different core architecture, so back-compat doesn't really work from that perspective."

www.theverge.com/.../new-xbox-has-no-backwards-compatibilty

He also told the Wall Street Journal the next day (5/22) that it wasn't feasible from a financial standpoint.

www.vg247.com/.../xbox-one-if-you%E2%80%99re-backwards-compatible-you%E2%80%99re-really-backwards-says-mattrick

They've actually shifted policy a bit by even considering a cloud-streamed backwards compatibility, something they had no plans to do originally.

Bottom line, it was well publicized, and we need to make sure we do our homework before assuming something is going to work when it's been confirmed early on that it won't. I'm sorry, I know that's not the answer you want to hear.

Everyone has own reason why to complain. My is very simple: there is no single word in the marketing sales pitch of X1 that I need to be ready to dump my collection of 360 games or keep the old hardware before I spent 500$ on X1.

No hate, Unicycle, just telling it like it is, is all. I'd love to see some type of emulation as retro gaming is a very valid niche, but Cloud streaming (in a client machine/virtual desktop type of setup) is really the only viable solution.

If you remember, emulation was a nightmare to program on the 360, which is why it ran into so many issues. It wasn't simply a matter of the original Xbox's entire programming being emulated on the 360, they actually had to program a separate piece of emulation
for each game, which is why it didn't all happen at once. Imagine if the devs had to do that with 360 games, which are about 10 times as sophisticated as original Xbox games. It would take way too much time and effort that would take away from their focus
on current and future games.

I don't think I'll ever understand all the complaining about lacking backwards compatibility. It would be totally impractical and I doubt Sony or Microsoft ever considered it for more than 5 minutes. Don't people remember the launch PS3? Would anyone
really want a PS4 that costs $600 and took up twice as much space? Or an ever bigger Xbox One that cost $700? I guarantee neither console would be selling as well as it is now.

It's not as if by having an Xbox One your Xbox 360 now no longer functions. Use both for what they're intended. Why pay $500 just to be able to play the same games you've been playing? I paid $500 to be able to play new games.

Using the cloud to stream old games is interesting, but not something I think I'd take advantage of very often. I'll always have my old hardware and I think playing games on the original hardware would be a better experience. It seems most useful to people
who weren't gaming when the old games came out. If cloud streaming leads to another generation of gamers experiencing games like BioShock and Assassin's Creed II, then I'm all for it. But since I was gaming throughout the entire Xbox 360, PS3 era, I don't
think I'll benefit that much.

with all that super powerful hardware: can microsoft just release a software 360 emulator running on x1 to support 360 games. so far my transition is quite painful and i even thinking to return x1...