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View Poll Results: Is backwards compatability important?
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Yes, for the love of god, yes!
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No, it's completely unneccessary.
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How important is backwards compatability?
06.01.06, 02:44:35
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According to Micro$oft's Peter Moore, not very.
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One thing that Xbox 360 users with hard drives benefit from is backwards compatibility with Xbox 1 titles, but some gamers have been underwhelmed by the volume and quality of games that are compatible on the new system. It doesn't look like much is going to change either, based on Moore's latest comments in the interview. "Nobody is concerned anymore about backwards compatibility. We under promised and over delivered on that. It's a very complicated thing... very complex work. I'm just stunned that we have hundreds of games that are backwards compatible."
He added: "more are coming, but at some point, you just go, there's enough, let's move on, or people aren't as worried about a game being backwards compatible - and I like to think we've upheld our end of the bargain in making at least two or maybe three hundred games backwards compat."
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http://games.kikizo.com/news/200605/155_p2.asp
Speaking as someone who no longer owns a PS1 (because my sister stole it shortly after I got my PS2, and took it to college with her...), and regularly plays the older FF games, I say backwards compatability is a must, these days. |
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for the love of christ and all that is holy my anus is bleeding
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| I agree completely. Hell, half the reason I even bothered getting a PS2 is because it could play PS1 games. And half the reason the Wii looks so appealing is because it'll allow me to play all the GameCube games I missed. If the Xbox 360 doesn't play Xbox games, then I'll have even less incentive to buy one than I already did. |
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| Yeah, this is something that Microsoft is majorly blowing. If people can buy a system that will play all their old games, that will be a major factor in the purchase. The fact that Wii and PS3 are offering full support on the previous system is proof of a market. It played a major factor in PS2's success for sure. |
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SCREW Peter Moore.
I've got over 60 Playstation 1 games, but guess what, I have no Playstation 1 anymore.
Actually, now it's an ashtray. Serious.
And where do I play all those PS1 games? The PS2, of course.
And when the PS3 comes out, I won't have finished the slew of rpg's I have for the system. I'll play them on PS3, since I'll probably lose my console before it conks out.
There are some awesome titles for the older systems, which we couldn't play if it wasn't backwards compatible, and that would SUCK.
Besides, I'd rather play Legend of Mana over Unlimited Saga any day. |
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Od of lies is killing me.
Romanticide, till love do me part.
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| Microsoft majorly blows everything like they did with Winblows. But then again, we're speaking of a software company that knows little about the gaming community and decided to try their hand at video games, didn't do well, but didn't blow themselves out of the water completely, but haven't attracted the Japanese game developers, as far as I'm concerned, and as we all know, most of the good games are produced by Japanese game developers. As for backwards compatability, it would be nice, but if you can play games off of emulators and ROMs, it doesn't exactly matter if you've got a computer now, does it? Well, backwards compatibility would be nice, but beyond two or three systems, I didn't think it necessary. |
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O De! Tua omnipotentia et omniscientia me non obstupefaciunt.
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Because of the crap unit I have where my telly and consoles on BC is pretty important. Otherwise I'll have to put one of the consoles away if I get a new one and I don't want to unplug one of the others, reconnect the Xbox and then disconnect the Xbox and reconnect the others when I'm done, it's too much hassle.
If I could have 5 or 6 consoles set up, I wouldn't be bothered but alas I can't so I'd like BC, it's far more convenient. |
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However, tranny porn of the kind Milly described sounds hot.
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I never did have a PS1, but if I get a PS3, I sure as hell want it to be backwards compatible with my PS2 games. I mean, the PS2's life span is limited, it's probably not going to eat my games anymore in another five years. And when it does die down, I still want to play the games I have for it, without having to scour the internet or markets for a working PS2.
This probably will happen with the Xbox, seeing that only a select number of (high-selling) titles will get a patch for 360 compatibility. The few rare games that everyone will want to play in a few years just won't be playable on 360's. They're probably going to lose some customers on that.
On the other hand, it probably will ensure Xbox sales for another few years. But still.
And I mean, for a company like Microsoft, is it really THAT hard to create an emulator for the 360 that runs Xbox games? They've got a hundred thousand employees working there, a small team creating an emulator shouldn't be much of a problem. They know exactly how the xbox works, so making the emulator itself shouldn't be a problem, and should exceed any fan-made emulator made so far in terms of efficiency.
And sure, emulating a console needs a stronger computer, but the 360's a few dozen times faster than the old xbox. Hell, I'm sure that Xbox games would run just fine, emulated, on just one of the three 360 processors. |
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| I think Backwards compatibility is a must have, if it wasnt used then i would never have played some FF games. |
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Let looks at this from a cosumer point of view, instead of a personal one.
It's a reality that 90% of the people who buy consoles and games are casual gamers (I.E. someone who plays games to pass the time, as opposed to doing it as a hobby), and will only ever buy a small number of games in the time they own that machine.
Now, anyone who is anyone has bought a PSone in their lifes, unless they're currently of the younger generation, in which case they may not have. They may not have too many games, but they still don't want to throw them out, given a choice.
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"Oh look, here comes the PS2 will full backward compatibility! We've gotta get that!"
Backward compatibility drives sales.
You know where Microsoft screwed up? They didn't prioritise the games they were going to make compatible for the machine. They should have concentrated on the most popular and sought after X-Box games first.
Word of mouth spread (the strongest form of advertising there is), and people were disenheartened that the majority of their favourite games weren't backwardly compatible with the machine, and this put many potential customers off.
As Peter Moore himself said "We under promised, and over delivered".
And for the second generation running, Microsoft's console is going to be the loser in the crowd.
Note: I'm a fan of all consoles equally, but the reality of the situation is pretty damn transparent. |
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