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The Best of Xbox Back Compat
Eurogamer takes a look at the best of Xbox backwards compatibility; the original Xbox games that run the best on the 360. From the article: "Enough ranting to embattled Zenmeister Peter Moore about the Xbox games that don't work on our 360s. What about the ones that do? It's not as though Microsoft's 'emulation ninjas' haven't already managed to get a whole bundle of them working, and with that in mind we've cheered up a bit since yesterday and started working through the 'compatible' list and had some fun sorting the wheat from the chaff."
...to not throw your previous XBox out.
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Here are some links you'll find useful:
l itygameslist.htmu nch-day-titles/a rketplace-launch-content/
Backwards compatible title list:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibi
Launch titles:
http://www.majornelson.com/2005/11/14/xbox-360-la
Arcade titles:
http://www.majornelson.com/2005/11/15/xbox-live-m
The list of backwards compatible games will grow over time, so if you're not already signed up for Xbox Live (even Silver, which is free), you should do so. Enjoy your 360!
They're right on the money with GR2: Summit Strike. I still play it way more than GR: Advanced Warfighter. The maps are better, there's a lot more variety, and you don't have to deal with the kiddies who rig the game to get their rank up. And Forza is still my racing choice. All of the idiots who play bumper cars instead of racing seem to have moved over to PGR3, and there's some great competition on Live in Forza.
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I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
I understand that they have plenty of them ported for playing on the 360, but the fact is that there is that 'game' that i want to play and i can't play it the 360. This and a lack of a great launch library is what caused me to sell my 360 in return for a working XBox. There are plenty of great old games and not that many great new games, how are you going to play the majority then.
Or maybe Sony? Are you kidding me??
For the price of a PS3, you could buy an Xbox 360 AND a refurb'ed xbox. You'd probably still have some beer money left over.
And still no Blinx!
Yeah, but can your Xbox 360, refurb'ed xbox, and beer let you play PS1-PS3 games?
I like backwards compatibility. It was easier to just leave my PS2 plugged in then swap the cables with the PS1.
My point was that with the other two next gen consoles, you can play the current gen games fine through hardware, not software emulation.
Backwards compatibility is an issue I personally like in systems, even though some don't.
Or Shenmue II. Granted, I don't think that's ever going to happen.
My point was that with the other two next gen consoles, you can play the current gen games fine through hardware, not software emulation.
As far as I know Sony has not made any official statement on how backwards compatibility will be implemented on the PS3. It seems likely to me, though, that they will do it by including a separate PS2 chipset, such as the one in the PS2 Slim model. Which isn't 100% compatible with all PSX or even all PS2 games.
Nintendo's new console will play Gamecube games in hardware, since the two consoles have a common architectural design. The "Virtual Console" retro games, though, will use software emulation (though The Big N is shying away from using that terminology, with its implications of ROM piracy).
Hi troll! Gee I almost thought you'd disappeared over to digg completely but its good to see you still come back to /.
Seriously though how can you love a game console so much? Who cares?
Hardware failures on the X360? There were extremely limited cases at launch. The PS2, OTOH, is notoriously unreliable and given that even at $599, Sony is scraping the bottom of the barrel for hardware, the PS3 doesn't promise much more.
Crappy graphics are a matter of taste, but for what it's worth, Gears of War looks better than even the PS3 "tech demos." The 360 is less powerful, but more mature and much easier to develop for. There aren't even launch titles for the PS3 yet!
As for "free online," all that means is developers can charge your ass for every single game ($5/mo for just one game=$60/year), not to mention there's no framework for developers to make it easy.
If you want to play your PS2 games, it will be easier to buy a new PS2 than buy a new PS3 when it breaks down (and it will, believe me).
Now why would I want to play Xbox games? I don't even own one.
My *point* was that PS3 and Revolution have backwards compatibility with the current generation through hardware, or at least they are suppose to.
Software emulation can get pretty good, but it takes years to get to that point.
The day I buy a PS3 or Revolution I'll be able to play any game I already own for the current generation of that line. My understanding is that is not true with with XBox.
That is my point!
I concur. Actually, I read it as "cowpat."
If you drink enough beer, it is pretty easy to convince yourself that you are playing a PS1-PS3 game (or hell, even a Colecovision).
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$499 for a PS3 with 1080p support? Get your facts straight. Only the $599 version supports 1080p.
Bzzt. Wrong. Both versions support 1080p. The less expensive version does not support HDMI. Perhaps it is you who needs to get the facts straight. Take a look: http://www.ps3portal.com/sony/article/308.html
There aren't even launch titles for the PS3 yet!
The PS2, OTOH, is notoriously unreliable
Hmm, that's funny... My first generation PS2 (the older big one) still runs like a charm. And yet, I know a couple people who have had Xbox360s for less than 6 months who have had to already get replacements.
You are either completely clueless, or one of the anti-Sony koolaid drinkers. Careful, or the bandwagon might leave without you.
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http://www.thewiire.com/features/1/1/Exclusive_Rev olution_Report_Talks_with_ATI_about_Hollywood
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... it is just a conceptual model). Essentially what I'm saying is that the CPUs of the systems are (in theory) pretty similar in real world performance with vastly different designs and specifications, on the GPU side Nintendo choose to include a less technically advanced (in feature set) GPU that performs at a very high level. You can choose to believe it or not but the Wii has far better single thread performance than either of the PS3 or XBox 360 and can produce more geometry with greater texture detail; the PS3 and XBox 360 destroy the Wii in Multi-thread performance and have the ability to do highly complex pixel and vertex shading operations.
... Their goal was to design a system where you could make beautiful games with no focus on photo-realism. Essentially, it is Nintendo's belief that gamers don't need to see the pores on a avatar, or the sweat on a basketball player to see a game as beautiful.
Revolution Report: Is Hollywood based off Flipper, a current or upcoming PC architecture, or built from the ground up?
Swinimer:It is designed the same as the Flipper was -- from the ground up for a specific console. Totally different sort of architecture from what you might find on the PC. Certainly, there are some underlying values, you know, how you get graphics on the screen, that's there. It's not, for example, like we took a PC design and said 'oh, you know what? If we tweak this and test this, it will work in a console.' [That's] not the case.
http://www.thewiire.com/news/340/1/ATi_E3_Graphic
Speaking with GameDaily.biz, ATi's Senior Public Relations Manager of Consumer Products John Swinimer noted the graphics for Wii titles on display at E3 2006 only scratched the surface of the machine's visual capabilities.
Nintendo's definition of the Wii as a New Generation platform is quite valid; the system is much more powerful than the Gamecube but does not include some of the technology that the PS3 and XBox 360 do. Since few people really understand what Nintendo is developing I'll spell it out for you; I'm going to characterize the processors in PC terms in order for rapid understanding).
The PS3 could be characterized (in PC terms) as a AMD X2 3800+ with a Geforce 6800GTX, the XBox 360 could be characterized as a AMD FX5500+ with a ATI X800, and the Wii could be characterized as an Intel Pentium M 2GHz with an (supercharged) ATI Radeon 9800. (I'm not saying that these systems remotely resemble the actual archetectures of any of the systems
The design of the Wii was entirely intentional
Information posted here seem to indicate that there will be a hardware solution.
I haven't been following the story, though.
I've wondering how long it will be until there is a "3rd party" "virutal console" to let you play any games you already "own a copy of" on your shiny new "Revolution."
Mind you, sometimes people make mista
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You are talking about Sony, right?
My English teacher once told me that two positives don't make a negative. Two words for her: Yeah, right.
Ugh. Actually, I meant Nintendo or Apple. I'll take a dozen spare Wiis over one PS3 or two Xboxes.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
...of the backward compatibility issues (i don't keep up on XBox news). Why is it so complicated, anyway? I mean, does anyone know of any PSX games that don't run on PS2, for example?
Or "ibility", for that matter.
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