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More Xbox Titles Added to 360 List
Eurogamer reports that Microsoft will be adding more titles to its list of backwards compatible games. From the article: "Microsoft has made a minor update to the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility list, adding patches to allow three new titles to run on the new console - namely Black, Star Wars Battlefront II, and Winning Eleven 9. The update, which is the first change to the list of backwards compatible titles in several months, also fixes issues with a number of games which previously worked with the Xbox 360 but had bugs in the compatibility code, including Ninja Gaiden, Fable, Half-Life 2 and GTA San Andreas."
1) After M$'s latest Vista F-up, some of the XBox team is headed over to "help" with Vista. Kiss your backwards compatibility goodbye.
2) "Uh...well, you can buy this XBox 360 with the noisy fan and unreliable power supply here for $300 or the old XBox that just fucking works for $75 off eBay. Either one can play your favorite game."
but my Playstation 2 plays Crash Bandicoot flawlessly, just as you would expect when Sony advertised that the Playstation 2 would be compatible with Playstation games. Kind of neat how that works, huh? Isn't that surprising considering that Playstation games weren't designed to play on a Playstation 2?
What's got everyone's panties in a knot is that Microsoft lists compatibility with original Xbox games as a feature of the Xbox, but the level of compatibility is abysmally low. Wouldn't you be pissed if your Playstation 2 didn't play original Playstation games like Sony said it would? Microsoft is the one pushing the compatibility agenda here with their pronouncement that they expect to have every Xbox title emulated for the Xbox 360. I am sorry that you feel that people who trust Microsoft to deliver Xbox compatibility based on Microsoft's own assertions should just shut up because you consider that Xbox compatibility is just a "bonus".
So, to summarize:
If I buy a PS2, or a PS3, or a Nintendo Revolution, or a Nintendo Game Boy Advance, or a Nintendo DS, and I expect the "backward compatible" advertised on the box to mean it's able to play the games from the advertised compatible system, I get exactly what a reasonable consumer in this position would expect.
If I buy an XBox 360, and I expect the "partially backward compatible" advertised on the box to mean absolutely anything at all, I'm an "idiot" and some guy on the internet is going to yell at me, because apparently in Microsoft-land, advertised features are "bonuses" and we should be grateful the machine boots at all.
This doesn't really inspire me to feel that buying an XBox 360 is the best choice for me as a consumer. I mean, what other things that one normally expects to receive standard and free from a video game console will turn out, in Microsoft-land, to be "bonuses" that I can't, and shouldn't, expect to actually work?
I can't play PS2 games on my Gamecube either
When you bought your Gamecube, did it say on the box, advertising or manual that it would be able to play PS2 games? Because mine didn't.