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?
Ok MS, get a digital store running on X1 for compatible 360 games and my wallet will be on fire. No joke. Just manly tears of joy. Gaming joy.
Ok MS, get a digital store running on X1 for compatible 360 games and my wallet will be on fire. No joke. Just manly tears of joy. Gaming joy.
I'll have to imagine that by actual launch there will be a section of the Xbox One store that offers Xbox 360 BC games. Telling people to go to the website isn't a real solution
So third parties will have to give their "go ahead", but what about Microsoft themselves? The cynical part of me thinks they wouldn't greenlight Gears of War when Ultimate Edition exists.
So third parties will have to give their "go ahead", but what about Microsoft themselves? The cynical part of me thinks they wouldn't greenlight Gears of War when Ultimate Edition exists.
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.
Yes. Those could run all PS2 games.
Im talking about the PSN PS2 games.
You can play those on any PS3. And they are not remasters. They are basically ISO dumps + gamefixes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_2_Classics
Example:
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...saga/cid=EP4015-NPED00140_00-GSHINMEGAM000001
Sony are dumb and hides the complete list...
In my mind, there isn't a reason for publishers NOT to do it. If their games are being sold on Xbox Live that means the licenses are all good and it's legal to sell. It also means that the publishers have a desire to see their games continue to sell digitally otherwise they'd pull them. So really just giving the thumbs-up to MS and say "Yeah, put it on the BC store" makes a lot of sense and zero effort on their part
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.
I'm dying of laughter sifting through older backwards compatibility threads. There are probably some other gems lying around.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=830521&page=1
The only reason a pub might say no is they are planning to release a HD Xbox One version and they don't want to undermine that.
Or if there's some weird backend cost to them. Like, MS charges the pubs some small fee if/when the BC version is downloaded.
Would be cool indeed, but you know licences from some games are just not going to be able to be made. I love the tech they have done though, running a 360 virtual machine and the One just recognising it as an ordinary game. It really keeps me hopeful for them carrying it on into a next generation in the future.If they actually make all my 360 games BC, I'll be investing in a 1TB XB1. The thought of having everything on one console is VERY enticing.
There are exactly 100 PS2 Classics on the PSN Store. Basically no big titles, though, I assume for emulation-related reasons. The PS2 emulator in the PS3 is actually really shit, and a lot of publishers had trouble getting their games to work properly
Never said it was a great implementation, just that it has sort of been done on the PS3. And correcting the person I quoted.
MS seems to be throwing much more weight behind it though and have made a way better implementation.
Yes. Those could run all PS2 games.
Im talking about the PSN PS2 games.
You can play those on any PS3. And they are not remasters. They are basically ISO dumps + gamefixes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_2_Classics
Example:
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...saga/cid=EP4015-NPED00140_00-GSHINMEGAM000001
Sony are dumb and hides the complete list...
Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are 1st party correct?
They have to show up. I need them back in my life
If they actually make all my 360 games BC, I'll be investing in a 1TB XB1. The thought of having everything on one console is VERY enticing.
The big problem with PS2 software BC on the PS3 was that the PS3 was actually weaker than the PS2 is some aspects making it difficult to implement. Specifically the GPU memory bandwidth was much lower. This is why Sony was able to offer near perfect BC with software emulation of the PS2 CPU and hardware acceleration for the GPU on the G2 PS3s.Never said it was a great implementation, just that it has sort of been done on the PS3. And correcting the person I quoted.
MS seems to be throwing much more weight behind it though and have made a way better implementation.
Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are 1st party correct?
They have to show up. I need them back in my life
Phil already said they're on the way
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.
I wasn't trying to correct you, just providing further info ^^
It's like, COD fans, GTFO.
Srsly
Grabbed by the Ghoulies on the Rare 30 disc is almost certainly running on an OG Xbox emulator inside the Xbox 360 emulator.
Think about it. Rare is not going to port GbtG to Xbox One when there's already a 360 emulator, and when the 360 was already capable of running GbtG via emulation.
Not only am I virtually certain it is possible, I fully expect to see it made available at some point, at least for some of the Xbox Originals series.
Phil already said they're on the way
Word hasn't reached the casual Xbox masses yet I imagine.
Ok, everyone that added me a friend up until now has now been requested to be in the preview program.
I'm up to date with everyone.
If you messaged me but didnt add me, then add me as its teh easiest way to do this.
It's a whole 360 VM, not ported APIs like WINE
I also don't believe it is frame accurate though Phil suggested otherwise
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Without a doubt in my mind that's what they are planning on doing. Makes perfect sense.
Also, Games with Gold and EA Access adding 360 titles, too.
My fingers are crossed for a stealth Xbox Originals section, too.
They said all their first party titles will be there - excluding Kinect stuff since that won't work. Multi-Disc titles are iffy right now, Phil said they would take extra tweaks to get working.
That being said, their page on the Xbox.com site has this image:
Gears is in there, so expect it.
So is Halo Wars, Halo Reach, ODST (which is already in MCC @ 1080p60 sans Firefight) Alan Wake, Fable 2, Halo 3, Borderlands (which they demoed in the vid) and more. I'm thinking the library will be quite vast.
percy, salty motherfucker right there
I have a hard time believing they could write a PPC emulator that would be fast enough on the XB1 to run a game like Mass Effect. It *has* to be taking advantage of APIs at some level.
Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are 1st party correct?
They have to show up. I need them back in my life
Multi-disc issue is what's holding them up according to Phil during Bombcast.
percy, salty motherfucker right there