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Would like to preemptively thank Klobrille and Mauro for confirming Ninja Gaiden 2, guaranteed will be here for sure :)
That would be the last 360 game I want. I'm guessing we are getting a mix of new enhanced games for OG and 360 but I'm tempering my expectations. We got Metal Gear and Silent Hill which was more than I ever expected tbh
That would be the last 360 game I want. I'm guessing we are getting a mix of new enhanced games for OG and 360 but I'm tempering my expectations. We got Metal Gear and Silent Hill which was more than I ever expected tbh
Max Payne 1, 2 & 3
Splinter Cell (OG Xbox)
Blur (360)
Project Gotham Racing (any of them. Just 1 will do)
Alan Wake re-listed and X Enhanced
Silent Hill 2 (OG)
A drop of any other 10+ OG Xbox games
I think that's reasonable..?
Splinter Cell (OG Xbox)
Blur (360)
Project Gotham Racing (any of them. Just 1 will do)
Alan Wake re-listed and X Enhanced
Silent Hill 2 (OG)
A drop of any other 10+ OG Xbox games
I think that's reasonable..?
Fair enough :)
It'll be nice to have them on a modern platform. Bought 1 and 3 on PC, but they don't have proper Xinput support, so it's a hassle getting controllers to work. BC on One wouldn't have those problems and could potentially fix the tearing and framerate issues of the originals. Only slight worry would be black crush, but hopefully that won't be a problem if they make it. Fingers crossed.
Yeah, I think he means the April inside Xbox.
At this point I feel that X enhancements were more of a proof of concept and it's better to add more regular titles and make Nextbox enhancements to the catalog at a later date.
Any of them barring PGR1 will do. Let's be careful with our wishes here.
I brought it on sale a few years ago hoping for BC, sadly Namco don't seem that interested in supporting disc based back compat.
Yeah when I said "just 1 will do" I meant any one of the games.. not necessarily PGR1. I don't care which PGR game, I just need one of them.
It's one of those series' where right now I'm just looking for official acknowledgement of it's existence. Even if we got PGR1 it would at least give some reasonable cause for hope that the others/a new entry might come one day. Right now it just feel's like it's dead/stuck in licensing limbo.
I got my 360 out and wired back up this weekend after reading this thread over the past week. Couldn't wait for a possible announcement. Played PGR3, PGR4 and Outrun 2006 C2C. Wasn't disappointed. Fun times
I'm in the weird position of playing on my 360 to play an Original Xbox title that isn't back-compat on One. Back-compatability, but perhaps not the one you were expecting.
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"exclusive look at Rage 2, a handful of exciting Back Compat announcements, and several surprises we're saving for the show itself."
Read more at https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/04/10/april-2019-inside-xbox-announce/#wZtORZyj7D4HysSm.99
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Read more at https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/04/10/april-2019-inside-xbox-announce/#wZtORZyj7D4HysSm.99
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The latest 'Inside Xbox' (April 16th) trailer teases Backward Compatibility announcements!
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/1116008105844690944
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/1116008105844690944
Chocolate, please. Thanks. 70% cacao only.
"A handful" translates to "Here's one game [at the top of the hour], here's another[at the halfway mark], and here's one more [at the end of the hour]."
Don't get me wrong. It's great that they actually mentioned backwards compatibility for the next Inside Xbox show. I'm still keeping my expectations in check.
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Their wording is what's interesting to me: "handful of BC announcements" rather than "handful of BC games"
But But, what if those 3 games were, NG2, Max Payne 3 and PGR4!!!?
The 360 supports Burnout 3 and it runs fine, so I'd go with that since a 360 is probably easier to grab than an OG Xbox at this point and that sweet sweet HDMI output.
I've been thinking for a while that among former leader of backwards compatibility Bill Stillwell's tasks after leaving for xCloud was an attempt to merge and enable backwards compatibility to xCloud. I figure that with Gamepass at the centre of all their promotion , xCloud arriving and clearly at the forefront of their priorities lately, their interest in a specific 'backwards compatibility announcement' is to relate it to these new programs to enhance their push. That or some kind of expansion of backwards compatibility to PC, though I would think bringing Gamepass on PC in parity with consoles might the first before backwards compatibility comes.
TL: DR I'm thinking these announcements might just be some kind of expansion of backwards compatibility and not necessarily a significant expansion of the catalogue of games.
Anyway, today it's officially a full year since the last wave of original Xbox games came.
TL: DR I'm thinking these announcements might just be some kind of expansion of backwards compatibility and not necessarily a significant expansion of the catalogue of games.
Anyway, today it's officially a full year since the last wave of original Xbox games came.
Some people just don't want to understand.
Obviously that would be amazing but i'm actually surprised Microsoft hasn't already done something like this. Copy Nintendo's Virtual Console service wholesale, get their technical wizards to partner up with Sega, SNK et al and build some console emulators. Of course a lot of these kind of games are being ported and resold anyway but it would cement the Xbox as not just the box for all things Microsoft but other companies as well. DO ITTTTTT!!!!!!
(i also think the next Xbox should full on have a "Steam mode" that would allow you to play Steam PC games on the Xbox but it almost seems like too good an idea to be true)
I want to believe.
But I also understand.
My pipe dream is for an option to unlock frame rates on capped games. Again, there are good reasons that they shouldn't do that. But let it be user controlled and we'll work out a white-list of games that dont break.
If limited to a handful of game announcements: Mortal Kombat 9, Scott Pilgrim, and the reintroduction of Poker Smash.
If new features announcements: I'd love to see USB support for Kinect, Vision Camera, and Guitar Hero/Rock Band compatibility (never gonna happen), optional switch to upscale all 360/OG games to 1080p/4K/unlock framerate (maybe could happen), and run 360 BC games on a Windows 10 machine (sure why, not, but sounds like a licensing nightmare).
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Oooo... a new stretch goal. I like it. How crazy would that be? I'd totally eat that up.
If new features announcements: I'd love to see USB support for Kinect, Vision Camera, and Guitar Hero/Rock Band compatibility (never gonna happen), optional switch to upscale all 360/OG games to 1080p/4K/unlock framerate (maybe could happen), and run 360 BC games on a Windows 10 machine (sure why, not, but sounds like a licensing nightmare).
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Oooo... a new stretch goal. I like it. How crazy would that be? I'd totally eat that up.
There are only 3 explanations why Max Payne 3 isn't on BC yet
1. They are developing Max Payne 4
2. They are doing a remaster of 3
3. Rockstar is sadistic
1. They are developing Max Payne 4
2. They are doing a remaster of 3
3. Rockstar is sadistic