TeamXbox posted a video interview and it mentions about B/C. I can't watch it at work, anyone willing to do it and mention some thing about it!

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Yeah, that's horsesh*t. I find it hard to believe that MS would try and pull that off. It probably wouldn't affect my decision to buy the console, but I would most certainly not be plunking down my hard earned cash for recompilings of the same games I already own.

Ah so you don't own and gameboy games then. Good to know.

I've never owned a portable system, but I think that's apples and oranges. Most of those GBA rereleases are from more than a generation ago, are considered to be classics of their respective genres, and have never existed on a handheld system. It's a much different situation than the possiblity of MS rereleasing a bunch of polished-up last gen games and charging money for them.

Though come to think of it, I might lay down a few bucks for a spruced up Halo 1 with Live functionality and online co-op.

Hmm... dang.

None the less it would make sense is to what they said about only top- selling games would be backward compatible!

Guess I will just have to keep my original XBox to play my original games then. Kind of sucks cause I don't want to have half a dozen consoles eating up space on my entertainment center, and I am kind of lazy, so I don't want to have to pull out the ol' black brick to play some Phantom Dust or what have you.

From what I have read, it seems that they will be including an emulator with the 360 that will probably not be compatible with all the titles. What I know of emulation says that it is much easier to optomize an emulator with fewer titles in mind. However, thanks to Live! I expect that they may increase the volume of backwards compatible titles as time goes on.

There is no way this will happen...no sane company.. especially one as savy as Microsoft would even bother going through the expense of packaging and reselling games that they know <1% would sell. More importantly what retailer given shelf space premium would even stock these items?

I cant even believe people are posting this as "factual" information or getting this worked up over it.

I mean really.

MS has just posted a list of backward compatible games:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/xbox_games.htm

There is an interview with Steve Ballmer over at engadget that talks a lot about backward compatability among other things and it definately sounds like he is referring to emulation. All I can say is we need more Ballmer and less of Allard and the other two clowns at the microsoft press conference. Some very good stuff in this interview.

I'm not sure I like this though, kind of makes me want to wait for the better version:

We wouldn't even be discussing it if M$ wasn't dancing around the issue. A simple answer is all we desire - the other two manufacturers have stated their stance and they're farther away from the finished product. So until the time they clearly state the plan, this type of speculation (and worse) will continue to pop up.

Chum

Stric9, remember that you can easily remove the X360's harddrive. Wouldn't be too hard for them to release larger capacity upgrades, no?

Anyway, about Ballmer... So THIS is one of the assholes that lets his 10-year-old play MMPOGs.

I think this just about says it all.

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And there’s also the possibility of patching over Live to allow for more games down the roadâ€"is that something that’s being looked at?

Robbie Bach, Chief Xbox Officer: Sure, there’s a number of different ways you can distribute the capability. The thing you have to recognize is we got to a point at E3 that we said look, there’s so much speculation about this even though the work is ongoing, we should just deal with it and get people focused on the right thing rather than on the wrong thing. We wanted people knowing we’re doing the work, but you don’t want to say we’re going to do every single game, because we don’t know that to be a fact today.

Oh, and the phrase "we're working hard" was in there so many times I thought I was reading a White House press release.