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[Azull]

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[Salaadin]

If the launch lineup and year one titles are worth it, I mostly agree with him. If your lineup sucks, you need BC to make your console appealing to me. Mattricks wording could have been better, though. Lol.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I think people are willing to accept that their retail games won't move forward.

Despite it not really being that different, I think people are going to feel very uncomfortable and upset at their digital games not moving forward.

 

[Interfectum]

He is kinda right , hardly anyone gives a shit about BC.

With physical games? Maybe. With digital content? You're crazy. BC is highly important for a digital ecosystem.

 

[Frodo]

Oh, so now it is a bad thing?

Spoiler

*playing Xenoblade Chronicles on my Wii U*

 

[Hypereides]

Mattrick really knows how to pick his soothing words.

 

[ezekielpacman]

He has a point, but you gotta love that quote. I'm half expecting their next move to be mass orphanage visits to steal candy.

 

[Jacksonlee]

FUCK!

best day ever part 2

 

[DaBoss]

I kind of wonder if this attitude for some people will change when people find out this applies to XBLA since some have that perceived notion that digital content always works on successor products.

Also

 

[Crimson_Gold]

Microsoft's next console is backwards compatible, everyone is turning their backs towards it.

I shouldn't have laughed at this, but I did. I laughed hard at this.

 

[Wishmaster92]

wooooooooo

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

Wow.

[continues to play Persona 3 on his PS3]

 

[dancrane212]

I had thought the ability to sell the 360's back catalog all through the next generation with a pretty decent profit margin would have been enough of an incentive to include it (no production costs, just bandwidth).

Didn’t steam show people will pay for games that are, in a technical sense, from a previous generation?

 

[ffdgh]

What a bad way to word that...

 

[Li Kao]

Terrible phrasing, but otherwise I agree with him. I quickly learned Backwards compatibility didn't influence my choice of a gaming console when I only picked up a next gen system after the PS3 dropped it.

Yup, the necessity of backward compatibility is indeed a subject that can be discussed. But the ability of MS to use the worst possible way to say it is simply astounding.
One day after the trainwreck and they are still on fire.

 

[toastyToast]

This has been the best 24 hours on GAF in forever

 

[Fezzan]

The third console curse strikes again!

 

[belvedere]

There's a train with so much momentum that it simply cannot stop.

If only it were the hype train.

 

[Tesseract]

word dm, word.

 

[Barakov]

Mattrick is beginning to go full Kutaragi.

 

[Meier]

The reason people only spend 5% of the time doing it is because you fuckers never give us a choice nowadays.

 

[maquiladora]

This is some 2005/2006 Sony level arrogance.

 

[PaulExcellent]

We can talk about that after I finish playing through my Wii and Gamecube games on a borrowed WiiU.

Or my PS1 and PS2 games on my friend's PS3.

Or my... Xbox games. On my Xbox.

You know, because I'm backwards.

 

[fabricated backlash]

Backwards compatibility makes sense for customers, not for corporations.

 

[Plinko]

I don't believe those statistics for a second.

 

[Linkstrikesback]

I'll agree with him. Why would you buy a new console to play old games. Just keep your old console and move on.

Because if there is one piece of last gen hardware you can trust will keep working for the foreseeable future, its the xbox 360.

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

Man I wish Noobsaur and Dead Evil were around. I want to hear them Spin, Spin, Spin

 

[Phonomezer]

I don't know why, I always disliked Mattrick >.> Probably the aura of smugness that emanates from him.

I like that he's pretty much saying "screw everyone who bought stuff for XBLA".

Do their Xbox 360's dissolve upon release of the Xbox One?

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

You know what makes you backwards? Naming your new system after your old system.

 

[bidguy]

i just popped in max payne 2 (xbox) into the 360. guess im a backwards caveman

 

[Shikoro]

While I agree with him, the way he said it is just wrong.

They will have to drop game bombs at E3 to make up for their other bad decisions.

 

[jay]

So their attempts at BC with the 360 were backwards? Or was it a good feature then but not now because of reasons?

 

[gofreak]

Stupid way of saying it, but it's the same position that Sony holds (I disagree with it completely) and it's really dumb to pile on Microsoft for it.

I guess the divergence is that Sony does have some plan for legacy content beyond the legacy box while MS at the moment has none.

 

[Labombadog]

So now they are offending the gamers. Right on MS you are handling this right.

 

[Kill Your Masters]

What is this, bizzaro 2006?

 

[Soup Bar]

Games that come out this fall aren't old games.

 

[depths20XX]

I don't really think you can expect consoles to be backwards compatible anymore. That was a short lived thing during the last couple gens.

Just keep your old systems around.

Anyways this is the least of Xbox One's problems.

 

[prwxv3]

It should have been pretty easy to say why BC is not that important without pissing on your customers.

 

[Principate]

Mattrick is beginning to go full Kutaragi.

You never go full Kutaragi.

 

[Wiz]

A nice perk of the Wii U (with the currently dry library) is having some old games (both Wii and VC) to go back to. I use the BC a lot with it, especially since there are a few late Wii games I need to catch up on. I think MS are underestimating the importance of BC, it will definitely prevent people from buying into your console early on.

 

[sublimit]

I think lack of backwards compatibility should be the least of their problems right now.

 

[MikeE21286]

"You're really backwards"

"Permission to use"

"We showed the stuff that people don't like"



Someone muzzle these guys.

 

[Nemesis_]

To be fair I don't think I've ever played Xbox games on my Xbox 360 even though the idea sounds great to me.

That being said, I have such a large library of PS2 games that I foolishly imported a launch model PS3 and realised that the imported PS3 wouldn't work with my PS2 games which were a different region.

So I've never had the luxury. ;_;

But the collection of 360 games makes me wish it was backward compatible - but at the same time it makes me wonder if I'll spend more time plowing through my backlog before properly investing in a One.

 

[Strike]

Wow. That's some real damage control right there.

 

[x-Lundz-x]

BC while very nice is the one thing that isn't a deal breaker for me. It's really not that big of a deal, at least to me.

 

[VeryGooster]

Not surprised at this attitude. Original Xbox compatibility on Xbox 360 felt like an afterthought.

 

[liquidtmd]

So if I had a £1000 worth of games on 360 and wanted to play them simply, I'm 'being backwards' in wanting them to play on one device but they've come out and said at the conference 'find it a hassle and too time consuming to switch to TV? Let the Xbox One do it for you'?

Priorities - they has them.

 

[bigkrev]

I don't believe those statistics for a second.

I do!

Just realize that most of GAF is in that 5 percent

For most people, they don't give a shit about backwards compatability. If they are buying a new system, its because there is a new game that just came out that they want to play.

 

[Represent.]

Because if there is one piece of last gen hardware you can trust will keep working for the foreseeable future, its the xbox 360.

Well yeah, but that thing is 8 years old. Its time to move on and pay new games.

 

[Guevara]

I agree actually. But this should have been phrased better.