2nd September 2003, 9:24 PM
For me there was never any doubt. It's too good a selling point, especially in getting the system into homes at launch, to pass up. I'm fairly certain that unless MS and Nintendo WANT to fail they will be including backwards compatibility in their systems as well. I mean, Nintendo already knows the value of such a thing with the Game Boy series (GBC playing GB games, and GBA playing GBC and GB games).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)