XBox360 Backward Compatibility

Thursday, Aug. 18 2005 | Author: jeremy

Ever since the XBox360 was announced, the issue of backward compatibility has gone from full compatibility to only certain games having it. Here is yet another log to throw on the fire.

Apparently according to a translation of the French site Jeux-France MS also announced that all previous XBox games would be backward compatible with the new hardware. Of course you will need the HDD, but who actually planned on purchasing the Core system anyways??

According to this statement, you will need to buy the more expensive version of the system to have backward compatibility. If you already have an original XBox, will it make that much difference to play it on the new system? Will there be anything gained from playing on the newer platform versus the older one?

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5 Responses for "XBox360 Backward Compatibility"

ben

August 19th, 2005 at 12:27 am
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who would be dumb enough to buy the core system?
Glenn

August 19th, 2005 at 12:39 am
2

It’s not so much whether I want to play on the new system, it’s more a question of space. I really don’t have the room to have both systems set up on my tv unit, so either I’ll have to keep swapping and changing them around or I just play the one.
Brad

August 19th, 2005 at 3:04 am
3

who would be dumb enough to buy an xbox 360 instead of some extra ram and a decent video card for their computer :P
cliche

August 19th, 2005 at 9:47 am
4

[At Microsoft marketing department]

Employee 1: We really need to price the xbox under that $300 sweetspot pricepoint to gain mass coverage.

Employee 2: But we’ll be losing too much money initially!

Employee 1: I just got an idea. Why don’t we strip down the system and sell it for $299? We can sell the rest of the console for the unbievable value of $100 more!

Employee 2: Think they’ll go for that?

[At forevergeek.com]

“who would be dumb enough to buy the core system?”
Griffith

August 20th, 2005 at 6:00 am
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I hold the oppinion that money, now matter how much it is, can’t make a system cool, it’s the software that matters. As far as Microsoft’s games go (from Microsoft Studios) they are all crud.

As far as their system’s games go, I could name like 7 games that I’d enjoy having and playing if I had an XBox, like Halo 1 and 2, Midnight Club, Fable, Dead or Alive Beach Volley (oh come on, everyone with an XBox HAS this game), Shen Mue 2, Ninja Gaiden… and that’s it I think.

For the PS2, I have dozens of wonderfull games that haven’t had TIME to play yet and probably never will due to their overwhelming number.