Poll of the Day > Xbox One Gets A New Backwards Compatible Game. HOW MANY TIMES HAS THIS BEEN NEWS

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Xbox has been a dead platform ever since they tried to ban the sell of used games.

That's what happens when you don't actually HAVE true backwards compatibility, as much as you're faking it via individual game emulation. ie, you keep adding new games to your "supported" list over time, usually based on popularity, so you're constantly listing new games as compatible.

That's what annoyed me with how the 360 handled it with original Xbox games. To this day I own Xbox games I can't play on the 360, and even some of the ones I can play have lag, glitches, and other problems because they weren't perfectly emulated.


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hey fun fact, sony was going to have a worse DRM system than microsoft tried to do.

http://www.ibtimes.com/sony-files-patent-curb-access-used-video-games-1005876
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

That's what happens when you don't actually HAVE true backwards compatibility, as much as you're faking it via individual game emulation. ie, you keep adding new games to your "supported" list over time, usually based on popularity, so you're constantly listing new games as compatible.

it's not based off of popularity at all.

microsoft has straight up told us that it's up to the publisher to make a game BC, and that every single 360 game can easily be BC.

this isn't the janky emulation the 360 had, where it also had to emulate nvidia hardware with amd software. that's why that had issues. emulation on the X1 is, more often than not, better than running the game natively on a 360.
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helly the resident xbot lol
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helIy posted...

microsoft has straight up told us that it's up to the publisher to make a game BC, and that every single 360 game can easily be BC.

Except I was talking about the 360 era, where they openly admitted that they were only emulating the most popular or best-selling Xbox games, because they viewed it as a waste of resources to emulate every game, even the most niche of titles.

And even if they're saying their criteria for determining which games get emulated this time around has changed, the mechanics of it are basically exactly the same. So no, it's not true "backwards compatibility" in the same sense that the PS2 had backwards compatibility to the PS1.


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I don't know, but it's apparently been enough times to make you buttmad over a dead platform.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

So no, it's not true "backwards compatibility" in the same sense that the PS2 had backwards compatibility to the PS1.

well duh. the ps2 had ps1 hardware in it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Except I was talking about the 360 era,

the second paragraph maybe, you made no distinction either way with the first.
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helIy posted...

hey fun fact, sony was going to have a worse DRM system than microsoft tried to do.

http://www.ibtimes.com/sony-files-patent-curb-access-used-video-games-1005876

Fun fact, you can patent stuff you never intend to do and get money from companies that were going to do it. :P
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ms botching it turned sony into fucking assholes this gen. i hate when people (see: idiots) think no competition is good.
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DeltaBladeX posted...

helIy posted...

hey fun fact, sony was going to have a worse DRM system than microsoft tried to do.

http://www.ibtimes.com/sony-files-patent-curb-access-used-video-games-1005876

Fun fact, you can patent stuff you never intend to do and get money from companies that were going to do it. :P

from a patent troll, yes. but corps like sony don't do that. if they patent something, they typically mean to use it in some form.
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helIy posted...

DeltaBladeX posted...

helIy posted...

hey fun fact, sony was going to have a worse DRM system than microsoft tried to do.

http://www.ibtimes.com/sony-files-patent-curb-access-used-video-games-1005876

Fun fact, you can patent stuff you never intend to do and get money from companies that were going to do it. :P

from a patent troll, yes. but corps like sony don't do that. if they patent something, they typically mean to use it in some form.

Sorry, plenty of corporations have done it as well. I've seen cases myself, though they are rarely memorable.

Not like Namco. They patented mini games on loading screens. Stuff that hasn't been pulled yet just tends to be forgotten.
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Sony did say they actually planned to implement it though, soooo
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helIy posted...

DeltaBladeX posted...

helIy posted...

hey fun fact, sony was going to have a worse DRM system than microsoft tried to do.

http://www.ibtimes.com/sony-files-patent-curb-access-used-video-games-1005876

Fun fact, you can patent stuff you never intend to do and get money from companies that were going to do it. :P

from a patent troll, yes. but corps like sony don't do that. if they patent something, they typically mean to use it in some form.

Sony has always been patent-happy.
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