X-Box 360 backwards compatibility

[A Black Falcon]

Yeesh, I specifically said it. Perhaps you didn't see that?

No, I didn't. Makes sense that you'd agree with me about that though.

I was specifically talking about your confusion over why people clapped at that BC announcement. You said that you would never have clapped at that, and I explained why the crowd did. Your point was that it would be no different than hearing a scientific proclamation. ... A press conference. A Microsoft. PRESS CONFERENCE. All of these press conferences are bullshit, but giving genial applause at stupid statements is expected. Haven't you ever been to a speach or a talk where the person says something not that interesting, but you're expected to clap? It's what we call etiquette. Pretty amazing concept, you should look it up.

The point of the press conference is to say how great you are. It is. Just watch the Sony or MS conferences (full, good quality feed is at Gamespot -- watch them!)... it's all about how awesome they are and, by association, how bad the competiton is. And it's mostly aimed at a pretty low common denominator, so they say some very stupid things... especially Microsoft, theirs is horrible (though Sony had a few moments equally as bad, like when Kutanagi (sp?) said that the PS2 made DVDs popular...)... it's marketing-speak. And they want the crowd to cheer to it...

Now, not everyone does, of course. Nothing gets a massive roaring round of applause. But you don't hear any booing... if they didn't like it, it'd probably be more likely to have just silence (remember what happened when Nintendo showed "Celda"? It wasn't boos, but it wasn't cheers...)...