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Microsoft Dismisses Xbox Backwards Compatibility
kukyfrope writes "In a recent interview on U.K. site Kikizo Peter Moore, Microsoft's head of the Interactive Entertainment business, claims that Microsoft has 'under promised and over delivered' Xbox game compatibility on the Xbox 360. He states that gamers are now looking more towards next-gen titles, forgetting about the majority of Xbox titles." From the article: "Moore's comments shouldn't be misunderstood. MS will be adding to its backwards compatibility list, but it hardly seems like a priority now that the 360 is hitting its stride and the original Xbox is getting less and less support."
Yeah, no clue what he's thinking, I love the option of playing NES and GCN games on my Wii or PS1 games on a PS2/PS3. Maybe it's "XBOX" gamers that don't care so much about it, because Xbox only has ONE generation to fall back on, and right now developers are basically only making souped-up "new versions" of games that already came out on Xbox!
While I'm not extremly familiar with all the Xbox success story games, what new games have Xbox 360 developers announced that were NOT similar to something already on Xbox? Developers are mostly sticking by the safe bet of what was successful on Xbox and not branching out into other types of games for fear of alienating their fanboys.
So no wonder Xbox gamers shouldn't care about previous generation of games for their system, the developers are just making flashier graphics for the new versions of the same games so consumers can pay $60/game and $300+ a system to play essentially the SAME GAME again in better graphics.
Why not address the real issue here, Peter, and stop generalizing your company's fanboys with the entire rest of the world of video game players.
AC (aka Moron), in cased you haven't neither the PS3 nor the Wii has been released. Currently, its vaporware, which is easy to pump up. Its a bit early to assert they have free online or '%100 backwards computability'. That might be the claim, but Sony has occasionally lied before.... Given the wildly divergent architecture and hardware, I would bet a tidy sum that many games will not be playable. Also, blu-ray is not needed for today's games. If you can fit Oblivion on a DVD, the space crunch is over-hyped.
~nate