Peter Moore (Xbox's Cheif) discusses "backward compatibility"

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152178.html

Xbox chief Peter Moore says "nobody is concerned anymore about backward compatibility."

My 2 cents:

If it wasn't a big concern...then why did PS2 do so well? why is Wii pretty nice about GameCube games? How come the PSP will have the ability to download PS1 games? DS playing GBA games? I dont think it's a coincident, it's what people like these days, recycling classic games is always a sure-fire winner.

Then again, this is MICROSOFT, a company that makes sure that you always have to buy the newest software/hardware to insure you have up to date goodies. Yet, sometimes they have to re-release a newer verison of the same softwares so it can work on the next Operating System?
 
Wow, you might have hit it right on the head with that last paragraph. Believe me I will be getting a 360 eventually but I'm just not big enough Xbox fan to do it now at full price. I'm more willing to shell out $500-$600 for the PS3 than to shell out a little less, only a little less, fo the 360.

And yes I love the backwards compatability because I still play my PS1 games and will now have the ability to play PS1, PS2, and PS3 games on one system.
 
Wow someone can actually be that stupid and arrogant. He really thinks the 360 is all that, doesn't he. He should be told the 360 tried Backwards Compatability too, they just failed horribly at it.
 
Yeah that whole business with the hard drive and all was really lame, and then apparently not all the games would work. The PS2 and now the PS3 have and will be automatically compatible and while not every game will work, at least the percentage is over like 95%. Why couldn't microsoft automatically make it work. They have the resources.
 
They have their reasons... The probablly shouldn't have changed from nVidia to ATI, but it doesn't bother me.

And a horrible failure, Archangel? People only wanted to still be able to play Halo 2 on the 360. Now, as you are not an Xbox or a 360 gamer, you would not know that, but that is how it is.
 
I was over at my cousns place the first night he had his 360 and it couldn't play Halo2, though it might have been a release problem.
 
Well that's just the problem isn't it. You can't hang your hat on just 1 franchise.
 
Backwards compatability is always a welcome feature, but I don't think its as important as most people in this thread make it out to be. People buying an Xbox 360 are not buying it to play Xbox games. If they wanted to play Xbox games they could have saved themselves a lot of cash and just picked up a regular Xbox instead.

While the PS3 can draw from thousands of games that were on the PS1 and PS2, and while the Wii can sport several generations of classic games, the Xbox only has one generation of games to be backwards compatible with. It's just not as important for Microsoft to make older games playable on the 360 as it is to make new games for the new system. That is something that I acn understand and respect.

If the drop the backwards compatibility ball on their next system however...
 
stealth toilet said:
Backwards compatability is always a welcome feature, but I don't think its as important as most people in this thread make it out to be. People buying an Xbox 360 are not buying it to play Xbox games. If they wanted to play Xbox games they could have saved themselves a lot of cash and just picked up a regular Xbox instead.

While the PS3 can draw from thousands of games that were on the PS1 and PS2, and while the Wii can sport several generations of classic games, the Xbox only has one generation of games to be backwards compatible with. It's just not as important for Microsoft to make older games playable on the 360 as it is to make new games for the new system. That is something that I acn understand and respect.

If the drop the backwards compatibility ball on their next system however...
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There are people though who sold their Xbox so they could get the 360. They depeded on Backwards Comatability to play their old Xbox games.
 
As far as I can recall, and I could be wrong about this, Microsoft never promised full backwards compatibility. Whoever sold their Xbox based on their assumption that the 360 would be backwards compatible should have read up a little more on the product they were buying.

But yes, that is the one instance where a lack of backwards compatibility might really piss someone off.
 
All I can say is that some backward's compatibility is better than none at all. I don't like most xbox games anyways, but the ones I do like are compatible. So it's not a big deal to me.

And like Stealth said, people buy the newer systems to play the newer games, at least I do. And that's another reason why I don't sell my systems, if I don't have the money I just don't buy it. The 360 is not going to suddenly going to dissapear.
 
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