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Xbox 2 - The Price of Compatibility?
Randy Lastimosa writes "1UP.com has an interesting article about the next Xbox, and whether it will support current Xbox games. They talked to a number of sources and got conflicting reports. For example, the CEO of Nvidia, who provided graphics chips for the current Xbox, said: 'It's virtually impossible on many levels,' he adds. 'On an intellectual-property level. On practical levels, too.'"
On an intellectual-property level. On practical levels, too.
Well, there you have it your honor. In the industry's own words: The rules of Intellectual Property are not practical!
"Microsoft, having cut one hand off with the saw, found they no longer could wield the saw to cut off their other hand, and declared it a victory."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
To preempt market backlash about the incompatibility of Xbox 1 games on Xbox 2, Microsoft has decided to set an unprecedented standard. Buy the Xbox2 and for a limited time, get a mail in coupon for a free Xbox 1! Now you have backwards compatability and Microsoft claims more Xbox1's were shipped increasing the market share against the Playstation 2... in 10 years, it won't like like a failure at all!
---- The geek shall inherit the Earth.
I'm still pissed from the time I tried to put my Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge into my friends new SuperNES and it didn't work!
I blew on that cartridge until I passed out. I got nowhere. I turned the SNES on and off a bunch of times too.
If they keep up this type of practice of backward incompatability, there will be a whole new generation of angry, confused kids out there.
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'It's virtually impossible on many levels,'
If something is 'virtually impossible', let's just say that it is 'possible'
I see a lot of people here saying they'd sacrifice backwards compatibility for a better/cheaper system, and that "no on they know" plays ps1 games on ps2. Well, I know someone who does. Me, specifically. I bought my PS2 so I could play GTA when it came out, but I also never got around to playing all the FInal Fantasy's that were on PS1, so I thought it was neat that I could. But I'm not even the big target.
I remember for years mom griping about how all these games she had already bought for us were useless on our new system. And guess who was paying for the new systems? You guess right, Mom and her purse. You might say, she did keep buying them, right? Didn't your mom love you? Yeah, mom loved me, but not enough to line nintendo's pockets with cash for the SUPER! Nintendo. The nintendo was the last system she bought for me and my bro. Afterwards, we saved up dearly to get the Super Grafx, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast. Obviously, me and my brother were bad gamblers as systems go. We he left for the Navy, I bought him a Neo Get Pocket color to bring with him on the ship. That sealed my title as worst video game purchaser ever. If you want to know which system is going to last, don't ask me. The only caveat is that I bought a PS2, but that wasn't until 3 years after it came out.
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My blood doesn't "just boil", it "explosively vaporizes". (After I attain a safe distance from the "dump" aforementioned.)
Don't start me on "taking showers", either. 'Course, where slashdotters are concerned, that's not a subject that comes up any too frequently.
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I find it highly amusing and ironic that someone with the nick of "eaten by a grue" would call old games crappy.
I'm buying the first console that is backwards compatible with my old IntelliVision games.
TRON!
Yeah, old music is crappy too! Same with old paintings! Oh, and don't forget old people... they are the crappiest of them all!
I thought you were going to write: "Everything's backwards compatible... simple turn the machine 180 degrees!"
God Bless America. Why? Did it sneeze?
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Mmm... black square computer...
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Right now, my XBox is compatible with:
hello, man.
I work at Sony, make games you like. we make many chips that go fast in PS2 to make PS1 make like real PS1 not slow PS1. Spend many yen on product and make Sony very wealthy place to be happy. Show respect and admire PS2 for what it make like PS1 do not like slow PS1--
S. Li.
I was going to moderate your post as Insightful, but unfortunately that would be violating the very rule you seek to establish. Sorry!
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