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Xbox One adds Xbox 360 backwards compatibility
- Thread starter Mugatu
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Word hasn't reached the casual Xbox masses yet I imagine.
I mean the stones, frying pans, etc... Clearing new space gets tedious when you have to whack stuff five or six times - same for clearing hard-packed ground. If you were able to hold the button down and have it hit repeatedly it would have been better - instead it's a 'powered up' hit that doesn't seem to have any more impact than a regular one.
Red Dead and PGR4 will be the end of all my free time.
TheAdmiester
Member
PGR multiplayer servers are still active, but the photomode and stuff is dead AFAIK.
My favourite:
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What I'm wondering is, since the Xbox One is running the Xbox 360 OS in a wrapper, and the 360 OS could emulate some OG Xbox games, could this run OG Xbox games? I wonder... Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Halo CE, 2 would be awesome. I'm curious if that's even possible - they'd probably have to pay Nvidia - and it would probably be more efficient to just emulate OG Xbox hardware on the Xbox One. If they could do that I'd be floored.
Haha I started that thread
Told you all
Man. I honestly never thought it was coming. For some reason I just thought it was simply not possible.
SFV going exclusive and Xbox One gaining backwards compatibility completely blindsided me.
I got you with one vote.
People will vote for what they own, so it's not a huge surprise big selling titles are at the top.
That said, who the fuck is voting for ME3 above ME2. Seriously.
Because that multiplayer was solid, and progress would be maintained. I'd love a good reason to play it again.
My favourite:
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What I'm wondering is, since the Xbox One is running the Xbox 360 OS in a wrapper, and the 360 OS could emulate some OG Xbox games, could this run OG Xbox games? I wonder... Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Halo CE, 2 would be awesome. I'm curious if that's even possible - they'd probably have to pay Nvidia - and it would probably be more efficient to just emulate OG Xbox hardware on the Xbox One. If they could do that I'd be floored.
It wouldn't be too difficult to have them run natively, rather than simply rely on the 360 emulator.
In an ideal world, they'd be selling Xbox Classics on the store and the Live service would be re-enabled for OG titles that used it.
Multiplayer. ME3 multi is still one of my favorite experiences in the last few years.
Edit: beaten, but hell, I'd rebuy it!
Um, that's exactly how it works? I just keep holding the button to clear a new garden.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Posted this the other day but it got buried:
Would be great to see a recycle your old games (discs) get an upgrade to digital BC version for $5. Would be a great way for MS to get some PR points from the green part of it and hopefully generate some digital sales/further lock users in on the digital ecosystem on the business side.
I know Disney and Warner Bros did something like this for DVD to Blu Ray.
I'm sure that it'd be a nightmare to process via mail in and would require publisher participation but it would be a good way to get people to rebuy games and would generate some revenue from all of those preowned GameStop purchases they missed out on over the years.
Would be great to see a recycle your old games (discs) get an upgrade to digital BC version for $5. Would be a great way for MS to get some PR points from the green part of it and hopefully generate some digital sales/further lock users in on the digital ecosystem on the business side.
I know Disney and Warner Bros did something like this for DVD to Blu Ray.
I'm sure that it'd be a nightmare to process via mail in and would require publisher participation but it would be a good way to get people to rebuy games and would generate some revenue from all of those preowned GameStop purchases they missed out on over the years.
Ain't nobody in the mood to spend hours mining for resources in ME2 again.
shanafan
Member
So excited for this, decided to re-buy my first Xbox 360 game to celebrate. Even found a brand new CE of it too for $9:
Don't forget about Rare Replay this August. $30 for 30 games, and PDZ is one of them.
Of course, the PDZ CE is pretty sweet.
Emperor Bohe
Member
This is my dream. Use those Azure servers for OG Xbox games!
Will Rare Replay have online play for PDZ?
Don't see why not EA and MS have a good relationship. I also think BC is good for gamers who never owned a 360.
Captain_Wreckus
Member
Should I buy the mass effect trilogy set or play it safe and get ME 1 only?
MrGreencastle
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Woffls
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I've not been able to get any of my discs to work with this yet. Digitial is fine, but PDZ, Kameo and Banjo are just noooppee. Anyone else?
That's actually a super cool idea. Just post a box of like 40 discs and your gamer tag, then wait for all the games to appear on your Xbone. I assume the boxes can just be chucked in recycling as well.
MrGreencastle
Member
Also brilliant.
Perfect Dark Zero (released in 2005, 1-4 players locally, up to 32 players online) A prequel to Perfect Dark that delves into Joannas origins and fuses first-person shooting with third-person.
Certainly looks like it.
Psyrgery ES
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JeffG
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JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
So when is it possible to use Disc based games in Europe?
Zeyphersan
Banned
So it sounds like if you run PDZ through BC you're playing with Xbox 360 players, if you're running through the Rare Replay collection you're playing with Xbox One players
Cool!
So far PDZ is the only game I'm aware of that doesn't work.
Fox Mulder
Member
People want popular games.
I'd hope the results dont matter that much, as stuff like cod obviously gets more votes over smaller stuff like deadly premonition or vanquish.
The whole point of BC is wanting to play games you own, which is why people are voting for 360 Minecraft or halos when there's better versions out.
So this works like PS2 backwards compatability on all PS3 models, where you download the game + specific game emulator fixes. Then the emulator is in the PS3 system emulating the PS2 OS and loads the game.
Pretty friggin amazing how they are emulating a 360 on xbox one hardware 0_o
MS truly are software masters.
Pretty friggin amazing how they are emulating a 360 on xbox one hardware 0_o
MS truly are software masters.
Yeah its pretty crazy. Complete with 360 dash, party chat implementation and all. Quite the achievement.
SmartWaffles
Member
Vanquish already showed up in the game image rolls at the conference so it is pretty much confirmed it is coming.
Yeah it is. I got a copy for $1 at GameStop a while back.
TheAdmiester
Member
That's almost enough to make me go out and get an xb1 right now.
Doug Heffernan
Member
While I like the idea of Microsoft adding only backwards compatible 360 games to Games With Gold, I really hope they don't use this as an excuse to not offer true XB1 games anymore. The first program is shitty enough as it is, don't cheapen it.
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
I want Civilization Revolution, what's my chances?
Fox Mulder
Member
I figured they just scrolled through a bunch of Xbox 360 games and wasnt really a confirmation of anything. Especially since it sounds like they can get pretty much anything to work beyond peripheral based games, but the hold up will be publishers.
It makes sense for MS to focus around the most popular but they should also just get everything on there!
I did think about that and that it would be valid, but I thought it's population was pretty much zero, and more importantly are EA still even running the servers so it works?
MrGreencastle
Member
Sort of but not really. Xbox One runs Xbox 360 OS as an app, which runs the game. No specific fixes required for each game, apparently, but the full game does need to be downloaded (with emulator) and it runs off the hard drive. Discs are simply used as authentication method.
Pretty sure early PS3 had PS2 hardware built in for backwards compatibility.
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Just testing out some Hexic HD with Twitch snapped for some pre-E3 gametrailers before the live shows start kicking off this morning.
Works perfectly. Pretty spiffy.
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Edit: Oh, and here it is with the Guide overlay:
Since the only way to get these games digitally is to either own an Xbox 360 already or buy them from the web store, is MS finally going to get around to removing the fuckery behind not allowing you to buy games from the 360 web store without having a credit card on file even if you have enough credit on the account to buy the game?
If it weren't for Bloodborne and SFV getting an Xbone would be a no brainer for me.
It's comforting to hear that, other than multidisk games, there's no work to be done to get 360 games on XB1 now that the heavy lifting of getting the emulated VM running is done. Hopefully this will encourage publishers to aprove as many games as possible since they can benefit from digital sales in the long run by having their games available in a current platform.