MS say they do not know if there next gen console will be backwards compatible or not. I believe that they know it will not be, for good reason. I believe that, of course they could make it backwards compatible, if they wanted to. So why not?
I remember back when Channel Technology released there Messiah mod for PS2, it was the first PS2 modchip of it's kind, that acted soley on it's own, without the use of a third parties product, such as an AR disc. Sony came down hard on them, and shut them down. But I remember reading the article about this, and most of the work that CT implemented in the chips design was ported over from PSX, as the PS2 was backwards compatible, it took them 6 months to produce the chip, but in theory, it was a years work. So, that is why I am a little dubious about MS saying they don't know if there 360 will be backwards compatible. In my opinion I think they set out to make it, so that it wasn't, for this reason. Sure, we will be pissed we can't play Xbox games on it, but we will get over that. Whereas PS3 however is still going to be backwards compatible with it's past two predecessors. To sum up, do you think this could be the real reason why MS have decided to not go down the compatibility road that Sony has taken, what are your views on this theory?