Microsoft dropping Backwards Compatibility?
 

Link: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3151161

What the heck? I was still waiting for Unreal Championship 2.

Yeah, who wants to play the likes of Jet Set Radio Future when Barbie's Adventure in Horse Entrails is fully compatible.

Hum, I can't be the only one that makes extensive use of the PS2 backwards compatibility feature. While I do buy new consoles to play the latest games, it sure is convenient to be able to use the same system to pop in a game like Castlevania:SoTN whenever the urge hits me.

Oh wai- looks like this news is already crushed.

'Barbie's Horse Entrail Lasso Competition: The Revenge of Barbie' coming soon maybe!

Oooh, a dozen.

Fuck, it should be more than 2x that amount, every month. They'll never get anywhere in the back catalogue if they work this slowly.

Man, 12 games, that's really slow progress... Well, I'm glad that they're at least continuing with the backwards compatibility. It just doesn't feel right that an Xbox 360 cannot play all original Xbox games.

- Psychonauts
- Shenmue 2
- Blood Omen 2
- Legacy of Kain Defiance
- Jet Set Radio Future
- Hitman Silent Assassin
- The Matrix Path of Neo
- Breakdown
- Prince of Persia The Two Thrones

That's ALL I'm asking for.

Instead of wasting valuable efforts, time and money on games that are 'easy' to emulate and that no one wants, they should try and do a poll to see what the majority of 360 owners REALLY want.

Although backwards compatability is handy, it's not as if anyone who owns Xbox games doesn't have an Xbox to play them on. Also, when the PS2 first came out, I thought backwards compatability was an awesome thing but to be honest, the only PS games that I ever played again after getting a PS2 were Castlevania, Worms and Suikoden. I'd be very surprised if there were any Xbox games I went back to after getting a 360.

I haven't tried all of my original xbox games on my 360, but I was disappointed to see that NCAA 06 Football was not compatible with it, which is strange since it did not get a release on the 360 {I bought MLB 2k6 the week before I got a 360, since my 360 purchase was totally impulse, and it is not backwards compatible, which is not surprising since a 360 version was released, just to throw out an example}. I have really only played two of my original xbox games on the 360: Halo 2 and Kotor. Kotor suffers from some slowdown, frame loss, and glitches when characters are speaking, so much so that I stopped playing it after an hour and switched back to the original xbox for it.

My primary complaint about the backwards compatibility is that I don't have room in my tv stand for a PS2, 360, Gamecube, and xbox, so I have my original xbox sitting on the floor off to the side, because I have to keep it plugged in to play my xbox games. If it weren't for that, then I wouldn't care one way or another about backward compatibility.

If it wasn't for the fact that you also listed Psychonauts I'd be driving over to your house to give you a kick in the junk right about now.

As for backward compatibility though, I'm with Shin on this. If I ever have the need to bust out an old Xbox game, I tend to use the old Xbox. Same goes for PS1 games and everything else. The consoles are already owned, and it's not like you'd be playing them all that regularily anyway, with the possible exception of games like Halo 2. Hell, I don't think I've popped anything but Halo 2 into the 360 since I got it. It's a neat feature, but I don't honestly see that many people using it.

It runs HALO, what else do you need?

And honestly, they didn't have any Microsoft employees take a single second out of their lives to make the Barbie game backwards compatible. It simply worked with the basic emulation software without needing any special tweaks, so they threw the game on the BC list. So using the "They have Barbie but not [preferred gamename], how gay!" argument is pretty stupid.

Sure, it was buggy as hell plus let's not foget that it's 'The Matrix' after all. But some of the levels were really fun and addictive.

Panzer Dragoon Orta, Breakdown, Otogi, Phantom Dust, Silent Hill 2/4, Beyond Good and Evil...

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Street Fighter Anniversary, Capcom vs SNK 2, Guilty Gear XX #Reload, King of Fighters 2002/2003, Burnout 3, Metal Slug 3, Ultra Bust a Move, Dynasty Warriors 5, Capcom Arcade Classics

Really, the only reasons I have an Xbox (and I don't want to choose between re-buying everything on PS2 or having 2 massive Microsoft hunks of plastic, one of which I'd only have for a couple older games).

Although it must be said...I'm probably at least 2 years away from buying a 360 (probably more). My greater concern is the servers for Xbox 1 Live games staying up.

I highly doubt MS is going to disable the XBox 1 games' Live servers unless the game has NOBODY playing it. You're paying for Live, so why the hell would they need to turn off servers just because their new system is out?

Other than encouraging you to buy their new system, that is.

It was just a concern I had, since a lot of the Live games I mentioned aren't as heavily populated as, say, Halo 2. I know Sega shut down their online Dreamcast servers ages ago, so I was kind of basing my concern on that.

Don't you mean Sega?

Anyway, I don't really mind. I'll be getting a 360 in late-2007 and, I'll be keeping my current X-box anyway. I'm just a bit upset that Microsoft chose Barbie's Adventure over Unreal Championship and Phantom Dust, T___T

Edit: I know, I read, Devo. I'm just saying, it was just..upsetting.

Fish has a legit concern Devo, the servers that ran Steel Battalion: Line of Contact's online campaign mode were shut down last year. Now the only online option for that game is unranked random battle play.

Kinda shitty since the online campaign was rad.