Sony’s PS3 sales took off long after they had abandoned backwards compatibility. I’m thinking Microsoft will somehow survive the vocal minority on this one.
Maybe it’s getting lost in translation but I don’t read it as mar3nez not thinking it a big deal. IMO he was fearful of this happening while others sought to downplay the notion of such scenario evolving into anything more than a few posters spouting off erroneous accusations
The family of Sunil Tripathi has a facebook page set up for him. They had to close it down for a few days to clean out all of the garbage and hate that filled it after the Reddit fiasco but it seems okay now.