Comment Re:No real reason to buy until games come out (Score 1) 310
At least this generation can play last gen games... Oh wait.
To be fair here. The reason why you cant run last generation games is because of the architecture switch. Both the Xbox One and PS4 are running x86 processors which means you don't have consoles coming out with specialized CPU architectures anymore. At one point or another this had to be done and the big consequence was dropping backward compatibility unless they decide to release emulator software for the current hardware or they start releasing specialized versions of the console that contain prior generation hardware.
The big benefit though is that developers can in theory develop a game across all consoles and PC without dealing with too much porting.