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Originally posted by Red
I would take the whole backwards compatibility thing out of the OP, to be honest, because, with the new infrastructure being used, there was simply no way that you could have played 360 games on Xbox One without it costing more for the consumer. It's a new CPU and a new infrastructure. Trying to implement BC in this case would have meant more money spent by the consumer in order to obtain the next console. Would it have been worth it then? Unless you're going to be playing 360 games more than Xbox One games, not likely. And "goodbye to your current collection"? Is it going to walk away all of a sudden? Will the 360 just stop working once Xbox One is released? That argument is so silly and just needs to go away. Unless you sell your 360, you're still going to be able to use it and play games on it.
The other points have valid aspects to them, certainly. I'm most disheartened by the "once a day" confirmation from Phil Harrison, as it pretty much just screws over anyone who doesn't have a reliable internet connection or an internet connection altogether. This basically means that, if you have an internet outage or can't afford to pay for your internet for a certain period of time, your Xbox One becomes a brick. That is a new level of garbage.
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Both new consoles work on new infrastructures that would require for PS3/360 games to be rebuilt in order to work on the new systems.
The backwards compatibility issue still stands because Sony has stated that they are working on a way for users to be able to play PS3 games on the PS4 at some point near future.
Microsoft has said flat out NO.