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Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Thread: Everyone wants it, no one uses it

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Enter The 36 Chambers

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G0523

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Nemesis_ said:
What are the odds of Mortal Kombat (and to a much lesser extent, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe) becoming BC?
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Anything's a possibility. How has WB's track record with BC games been so far? Don't let MK vs. DC discourage you either. MK and DC games are owned by the same publisher.
 
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jmdajr

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Capcom gonna deliver today!

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Izuna

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The lack of NG2 is really getting to me. We got all everyone else's "omg what if" games, but not the one that was published by MS...
 
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Banjo-Kazooie said:
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/865236045511745536

Three titles from Steins;Gate series (only published in Japan) are coming to Xbox One Backward Compatibility today mjr.mn/BackCompat



Yo that's actually pretty awesome! For anyone who doesn't know, Xbox One BC is region free so you can import the physical 360 discs and play them now!
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Yeah, for those Japanese 360 owners who upgraded to XB1. About 250 of them who also brought that game.
 
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Banjo-Kazooie said:
Or anyone who wants to play the games and doesn't want to dink around with a Japanese 360 now...

(Like me; I'm going to grab these on eBay right now)
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Sorry but you know the number of people who played these in Japan and the number of people who will go out of their way to buy discs from Japan to try them now is so small. Like no way was this a good priority
 
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DOWN said:
Sorry but you know the number of people who played these in Japan and the number of people who will go out of their way to buy discs from Japan to try them now is so small. Like no way was this a good priority
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And that's exactly the glorious part of BC to me. The fact that they are doing it for everyone

And stop with the "priority" stuff. There's been plenty of interviews about their process of making games BC. They don't test games in a vacuum where because they released steins;gate that means they didn't work on something else
 
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DOWN said:
Sorry but you know the number of people who played these in Japan and the number of people who will go out of their way to buy discs from Japan to try them now is so small. Like no way was this a good priority
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Well that depends on your use of priority here.

They got region-locked games that maybe a percent of the total Xbox 360 audience ever heard of, much less played, and made it available to the world, now on a modern system.

That's the exact type of thing BC should be doing in my opinion.

Banjo-Kazooie said:
And that's exactly the glorious part of BC to me. The fact that they are doing it for everyone

And stop with the "priority" stuff. There's been plenty of interviews about their process of making games BC. They don't test games in a vacuum where because they released steins;gate that means they didn't work on something else
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Yeah this ^
 
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yyr

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Wait, hold on a second.

We know that Xbox One games are region-free, sure. But does BC make 360 games region-free? As in, can Japanese region-locked 360 games be played on any Xbox One?
 
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Banjo-Kazooie

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yyr said:
Wait, hold on a second.

We know that Xbox One games are region-free, sure. But does BC make 360 games region-free? As in, can Japanese region-locked 360 games be played on any Xbox One?
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Yes, physical version of Japanese discs can be played on any Xbox One as long as the title is BC. People tested it with CLANNAD which was released last year
 
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Enter The 36 Chambers

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Izuna said:
The lack of NG2 is really getting to me. We got all everyone else's "omg what if" games, but not the one that was published by MS...
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Speculation, I think the delay is down to either these:

1) they just haven't gotten to it yet. These things take time as we've seen.

2) Tecmo is very PlayStation oriented lately. Could be affecting their willingness to allow the game be BC

3) Team Ninja is still salty that Itagaki's ninja Gaiden games were the best they were involved in. The sigmas are trash and they may not want to validate itagaki

Source- my ass
 
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Enter The 36 Chambers said:
Speculation, I think the delay is down to either these:

1) they just haven't gotten to it yet. These things take time as we've seen.

2) Tecmo is very PlayStation oriented lately. Could be affecting their willingness to allow the game be BC

3) Team Ninja is still salty that Itagaki's ninja Gaiden games were the best they were involved in. The sigmas are trash and they may not want to validate itagaki

Source- my ass
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3 sounds most likely.
 
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Hotsuma

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Need Virtual On Force next! Some good Sega games are still missing, unless they're holding them to debut with the Game Pass subscription.
 
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cuilan

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shandy706 said:
So how are these games?
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If you can read Japanese and enjoy visual novels, I'm sure you'll like them. The first game contains the real meat of the series story-wise, so start there if you're curious. If you end up loving it, then check out the 3rd game, and if that still leaves you wanting more then pick up the 2nd one.
 
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cuilan said:
If you can read Japanese and enjoy visual novels, I'm sure you'll like them. The first game contains the real meat of the series story-wise, so start there if you're curious. If you end up loving it, then check out the 3rd game, and if that still leaves you wanting more then pick up the 2nd one.
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Is there a difference between these three games and the two that were recently localized (Steins;Gate/Steins;Gate 0?)
 
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cuilan

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Tapejara said:
Is there a difference between these three games and the two that were recently localized (Steins;Gate/Steins;Gate 0?)
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Steins;Gate is the first game in the series and was originally 360-exclusive, while Steins;Gate 0 is a true sequel and it did not receive a 360 version. I don't think any of the other games besides those two have been localized yet. The other two games on 360 are Hiroyuki Renri no Darling (non-canon, light-hearted slice of life) and Senkei Kousoku no Phenogram (expands on the story of the first game).
 
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cuilan said:
Steins;Gate is the first game in the series and was originally 360-exclusive, while Steins;Gate 0 is a true sequel and it did not receive a 360 version. I don't think any of the other games besides those two have been localized yet. The other two games on 360 are Hiroyuki Renri no Darling (non-canon, light-hearted slice of life) and Senkei Kōsoku no Phenogram (expands on the story of the first game).
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Ah, cool, thanks for the clarification!
 
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