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Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Finalized
News for nerds writes "Microsoft has finally announced the list of the 213 Xbox 1 games playable on Xbox 360 at launch. A software emulator is required for each original Xbox game, which means you need an HDD for these games to work on Xbox 360. While it is expected that the list will grow in future via Live update, as of now it lacks first-party titles such as Project Gotham Racing, and other popular titles such as DOAU/X, Doom 3, Far Cry, KUF, Panzer Dragoon Orta, the Splinter Cell series, and the SW: Battlefront series." Xbox.com is also featuring an interview with Todd Homdahl about the quest for compatibility.
I can't think of any better slogan for the 360.
The 360 reminds me of that scene from Planes, Train, and Automobiles where John Candy and Steve Martin are sitting there pulled over by a patrolman and he asks them if they think their burned out vehicle is roadworthy.
This pathetic list of games is John Candy noting the radio still works...
Honestly, is there even a point in releasing the 360? Ok, great the few million Sega Dreamcast/Microsoft diehards will rush out and buy one. But who in their right mind would buy a console that:
1) Has less disc space than a previous generation console
2) Graphics that are so bad people keep mistaking 360 games for old Xbox games
3) A fucked up graphics system where games are full of jaggies unless a custom tile based renderer is implemented due to the lack of EDRAM. Even first party titles are full of jaggies. Pathetic.
4) Peripherials that are insanely expensive
5) No support for next gen HD movies. No next gen disc format and no digital HDMI output.
6) The dual sku fiasco. Developers won't be bothering to put the effort into utilizing the harddrive since Microsoft has made it a requirement that all games work with no harddrive. But you have to have the mostly useless extra hundred dollar harddrive for something as simple as backwards compatibility.
7) The same old pathetic library of mostly pc games and sports games that the 100 million PS2 owners and 20 million GameCube owners didn't care about.
8) An online service that is nothing more than a revenue stream for Microsoft - Sony and Nintendo aren't going to be milking their console owners just to play online.
9) A complete lack of must have exclusives. Halo - big whoop. Just about everything worth playing on the 360 will have better versions on pcs.
10) Marketing that makes you embarrased to admit you own a 360. The worse than StarWars Holidy Special MTV 'thing', the insanely stupid 'drive out to the fucking desert' launch event, and the utterly retarded 360 commercials. Just scream to how unhip Microsoft is as a company. Their entire PR campaign just screams "We are clueless and lame"
People talk about the Dreamcast and Saturn as historic console failures. They aren't even in the same league as the disaster that is the 360.
Oh yes, whenever I spend over 400 dollars on a product, I am not really concerned with quality and how well it performs, but just some vague touchy-feel notion that at least the company 'tried'
Whatever dude. Scrape up your allowance money and knock yourself out with this POS system.
"Its like someone looked at my rack of XBox games and picked everyone one I've finished to be compatible, and every one I haven't to not be."
So you have 213 Xbox games?
Today's English grammar lesson: "Everyone I've finished are compatible" does not mean "Everyone compatible I've finished".
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Tomorrow's grammar lesson will be the difference between 'every one' and 'everyone.'
Then we'll get into the difference between 'is' and 'are' after lunch.
No reason to lie.
It works for playstation, PS2, and I hope, PS3. Microsoft screwed it up with one generation change.
-William
God is everything science has yet to explain.