No backwards compatability for Xenon

Vampyr · 06-21-2004, 05:55 PM

I agree with Null and Typhoid. I never owned a PS1, but when I bought my PS2, it opened up TWO huge libraries of games that I hadnt gotten to play yet.

TheGame · 06-22-2004, 12:17 PM

Good point on being able to sell your PSones... I guess that was a nice little plus it had when I first purchased it too. I don't think if it would have changed my purchase or not however.

But then again, there is another pretty big difference between Ps1 Backward compatability, and Xbox backward compatability... the Hard drive. Of course, like every problem, there is a solution, but is it a path any company would realy want to take? It's about the same as Ps2's backward compatibility not allowing the same memory cards.

tarakan69 · 06-22-2004, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGame

But then again, there is another pretty big difference between Ps1 Backward compatability, and Xbox backward compatability... the Hard drive. Of course, like every problem, there is a solution, but is it a path any company would realy want to take? It's about the same as Ps2's backward compatibility not allowing the same memory cards.

Well that raises the question. Is MS even SERIOUS about online gaming?

Sure FPS, Racing, and sports are nice.

But what gives online it's real meat are MMORPGs... Taking out the HD kills that possibility.

Sure you can argue about alternative storage methods... but it's highly unlikely we will see the amount of storage space necessary for a MMORPG.

1. No HD
2. No Backward compatiabilty (VERY dissapointing)

X-Box 2 is a step backwards, no matter which way you look at it.

Bond · 06-22-2004, 05:01 PM

Xbox!!!! Xbox!!!!! THE NAME OF THE CONSOLE IS Xbox!!!!!

Null · 06-22-2004, 05:11 PM

bond, i've been fighting that battle since it came out....... some people just like giving it its own name

oddly tho you never see em calling it Play-Station 2 or Game-Cube

what possesses them to put that - in there for xbox is behond me.

BTW, tarak, what gives online gaming its real meat is downloads, updates, mods, extra cars characters and maps and stuff.

that is what no hard drive is killing.

Acebot44 · 06-22-2004, 05:15 PM

I believe I read that in the future, xbox live will be used for much more than just playing games, and we've seen a little bit of that so far. MS is messing around with the idea of storing game files, music, movies and everything else which would be on the hardrive on an online xbox live account. Don't know how that would work for those without broadband but that's something anyway.

Null · 06-22-2004, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Acebot44

I believe I read that in the future, xbox live will be used for much more than just playing games, and we've seen a little bit of that so far. MS is messing around with the idea of storing game files, music, movies and everything else which would be on the hardrive on an online xbox live account. Don't know how that would work for those without broadband but that's something anyway.

not gunna happen. at least not in the near future.

internet speeds will have to get much much faster and it would need bigger faster storage ways.

Hero2 · 06-22-2004, 05:56 PM

I dont think the backwards compatability will be a big issue for xbox-2. Most of xboxes games are geared toward first person shooters and sports games. After a year sports games are old and usally there will be a better first person shooter game out. For xbox the games change quicker, They dont have many classic games unlike Nintendo and PS2.

Typhoid · 06-22-2004, 06:56 PM

Backwards compatability isnt to big for the Xbox, like Hero said, most are FPS or sports, and they get leveled out by the next one that comes along.

I dont know what the big fuss is all about. No system up until the PS2 had backwards compataility, and yet now its such a big deal to have it. If you own an Xbox, and plan on buying the latter, you shouldnt care.