Will Xbox2 Be Backward Compatible?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 14, 2004 @11:35AM from the time-will-or-will-not-have-told dept.

An anonymous reader submits "In an interview on Wired News, Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Transitive Corporation said QuickTransit will allow the Xbox Next (aka Xbox2, which will have a PowerPC CPU) to run first-generation Xbox games which were written for an x86 Intel chip. Transitive is a provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs. This could mean Microsoft will after all make their next generation consoles backward compatible, unlike what was announced in June." I can't quite tell how hypothetically he's speaking; the no-performance-hit OS switching the article talks about sounds pretty hard to believe.

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XBox NeXT? by T-Ranger · 2004-09-14 12:06 · Score: 0, Troll

Jeez man. I know you dont like him, Bill, but are you going out of your way to piss off Jobs?
Re:Ignoring the fact... by superpulpsicle · 2004-09-14 14:19 · Score: 1, Troll

No no no. The biggest caveat is M$ will be at "innovation territory". That's something M$ has never been able to do. They do their best work when they come in second and steal someone else's idea.

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