If you watch the live video feed of the announcement 11 minutes and 45 seconds into it, what is actually declared is "many gamers have been asking us if they will be able to play their favorite XBOX games on XBOX 360. Tonight we are very pleased to announce that XBOX 360 will be backwards compatible with the top selling XBOX games."
Those are the facts. Now my guess is that this is similar to any product quality testing in that not EVERY game will be tested for compatibility. Which was also the case for PS2 backward compatibility, the most popular ones worked fine, but more obscure titles did not.
I just watched the pre-E3 Sony Press Event (insider.ign.com) and at 44:19 into the video Masa Chatani is introduced and 47:50 he states that "[Playstation 3] there is also a built in wireless network interface that allows connection to Wi-Fi devices, including Playstation Portable. This allows PSP to become a remote controller, as well as remote screen. Whether you are in the next room, or on the other side of the world. From any remote location, PSP can have access to PS3 to play the local playing game, which runs from the PS3 out of your home. The always on, always connected nature of the PS3 means that your secure media can be accessed remotley at anytime over broadband or wireless networks."
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If you watch the live video feed of the announcement 11 minutes and 45 seconds into it, what is actually declared is "many gamers have been asking us if they will be able to play their favorite XBOX games on XBOX 360. Tonight we are very pleased to announce that XBOX 360 will be backwards compatible with the top selling XBOX games." Those are the facts. Now my guess is that this is similar to any product quality testing in that not EVERY game will be tested for compatibility. Which was also the case for PS2 backward compatibility, the most popular ones worked fine, but more obscure titles did not.
I just watched the pre-E3 Sony Press Event (insider.ign.com) and at 44:19 into the video Masa Chatani is introduced and 47:50 he states that "[Playstation 3] there is also a built in wireless network interface that allows connection to Wi-Fi devices, including Playstation Portable. This allows PSP to become a remote controller, as well as remote screen. Whether you are in the next room, or on the other side of the world. From any remote location, PSP can have access to PS3 to play the local playing game, which runs from the PS3 out of your home. The always on, always connected nature of the PS3 means that your secure media can be accessed remotley at anytime over broadband or wireless networks."