here's a thought - with all the Scorpio talk and hinting that MS wants Xbox to be a platform itself rather than have generations; and with MS's commendable work on constantly bringing new 360 games to the backwards compatibility list on Xbox One, it would be friggin' amazing if BC was extended out to the original Xbox.
And when I googled that very thought, I found this Tweet from October:
James @James1o1o @XboxP3 I love the backwards compatibility for 360 titles, is it ever possible we will see Original Xbox backwards compatibility?
Phil Spencer ✔ @XboxP3 @James1o1o We haven't ruled it out but we aren't working on it right now. I'd like to find the time to do it.
It'd be really cool from a technical perspective, but I don't really see why they'd do it. This seems a bit like a Gameboy Player situation where it's cool technically but it's an investment that really doesn't make them any money in the long run, unless they're gonna start selling OG Xbox games again. Maybe they'd support old online modes again? But where would be their insentive to sell you remaster of old Halo games then?
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That's an honest answer from Phil because it always comes down to implementation resources. With the Scorpio on the way, plus the ongoing 360 BC, just may not have time.
They also may look at remastering some of those vs putting them out in their original form.
But the library of games that were BC on the 360 is a perfectly good place to start.
the Lara Croft game looks good to me. I *think* you can technically play it solo? Not sure. But it looks like a cool co-op game anyway.
I'm already deleting things on my 500GB console. Insane. I'm gonna have to think about an external HDD. And if that's the case, I'm gonna probably get something huge so I don't have to think about it again.
noiseredux wrote:the Lara Croft game looks good to me. I *think* you can technically play it solo? Not sure. But it looks like a cool co-op game anyway.
I'm already deleting things on my 500GB console. Insane. I'm gonna have to think about an external HDD. And if that's the case, I'm gonna probably get something huge so I don't have to think about it again.
The Lara Croft game is great and yes, you can play it solo, you'll just have an AI companion.
Plugging in an HDD is so simple, glad the PS4 supports this now.
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noiseredux wrote:In the case of 360 bc games, those got added for sale to the digital store. So technically it could make them money if they did that.
There have also been reprints of a few 360 games with backwards compatibility I've picked up quite a few of them because the new cases gave me the variant bug and most of them are only $12-20.
Not to inspire hate or rage, but how does Microsoft intend to compete with a complete lack of exclusive titles? I bought an Xbox one and only ever play it for State of decay. Nintendo is almost all exclusive games and Sony has tons.
It is almost like they are sitting on halo and gears and pawning off reprints of last gen games. The best thing about my console is using the controller for PC games.
Now they want people to buy an upgrade system? Well at least I can play 360 games lol.
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wclem wrote:Not to inspire hate or rage, but how does Microsoft intend to compete with a complete lack of exclusive titles?
They don't have a complete lack when you take PC out of it. I'm sure they'd like there to be more than there are, but I think there are a fair amount of people that like that they can play those games on console, without the "hassle" of PC. Add in people that only buy one console per gen and all people in the same peer group buying the same one to play multiplayer.
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