Which? Convo: With the recent launch of the Xbox One, gamers (including me) are crying foul of Microsoft’s alienation of Xbox 360 owners by excluding backwards compatibility. But is playing older games really that important?
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Microsoft's future in the video game space is murky right now, so let's break it all down.
Not anytime soon. But they're on that path.
One thing not mentioned in the article is Microsoft's money bags. If Sega had Microsoft's money, they would have still been around as a hardware manufacturer. Xbox as a platform only survives because of the money bags. They can continue making consoles for the core and port to PC.
The multiplatform strategy is only the result of arrogance and misguided leadership that blew up in their face. They thought gamers would jump on Xbox in droves if they knew that many of their favorite games would be only on Xbox. But that's not happening at all. Sales didn't increase. They decreased. Why? Because the dumb asses thought giving away these expensively made games in a cheap service would also turn the tide.
Gamers on other platforms are willing to buy quality. They don't need to be handed nearly free games in a service that aren't even finished and sometimes average in their development. Gamers buy Nintendo games. They buy Sony games. Microsoft groomed their base to not buy games. Even the quality ones. It has always been their plan to go digital. But most gamers still like single player gaming. Still like physical releases.
Microsoft's problem has always been that they don't produce high quality games at the same output as Nintendo and Sony. Actually, they should be producing quite a lot more because they're worth over 2 TRILLION. How they don't have more is ridiculous and no excuse. Buying publishers to take away from competition only backfired. Because it still takes millions of dollars to continue to make those games from the publishers they snatched. Their only choice was to crawl back to their competitors to help sustain those developers because Nintendo and Sony platforms were the ones buying games.
Am I sorry for Microsoft? Hell no! They deserved last place for putting in the least effort. They deserved the fallout for buying up the industry and didn't make a single blip on the radar against their competitors where they now need those same gamers they took away games from to support them. Part of it may have been to cash in on their competition. But the result is the slow death of their platform. They may go 3rd party. They may keep making hardware. I don't give a shit about them to worry about it. I only give a shit about the destructive nature of their industry moves that only negatively affect gamers. They could sell and drop out of the industry and I wouldn't blink. Probably laugh. But not blink. They deserve whatever comes to them. At least Sega put in the effort when it came to games. They just had poor leadership. Microsoft has poor leadership and barely makes memorable games. That's a killer combination. And not in a good way.
Not sure about that. It's been two decades and I still think about Power Stone, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Seaman and others, but I'm not sure I'll remember Xbox Series X/S games in a few years from now... Maybe I'll remember about the franchises that the Xbox brand spawned, but I don't believe that the Xbox Series lives up to the late Dreamcast or even to the Xbox name itself. I do have great memories about the 360 with Blue Dragon, Gears 2 and Lost Odyssey though
No, Dreamcast was ahead of it's time and most still have very fond memories of it that had one. It also had some good games on it even in it's short lifespan. Xbox has none of these qualities.
Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox will be discontinued in April and has confirmed that weekly streaks will also be coming to an end.
If the fact Xbox One is not BC wasn't bad enough, then the fact that it also must always be online in order to play games and forces a mandatory fee to play used games is an absolute deal breaker.
Who cares if this guy doesn't buy an xbox one. The console will sell millions an millions and millions.
For me BC is not a total deal breaker BUT it does add another check mark in the Negative column for the Xbox One.
My main issues are
1. Kinect required for system to work.
I don’t want a surveillance system in my living room AND I will never use anything Kinect offers.
It also drives the cost up for something I don’t want.
Did you also realize that the new system will NOT come with a headset? AND Microsoft changed they system in such a way that your current headset won’t work with them, they are forcing their vendors to come up with a new design that work with the new system.
2. Used/Rented/borrowed game policy.
Bottom line it sucks and you are greedy bastards.
3. DRM/internet required.
I’m not the thief here M$, seems to me that you are in trying to steal my privacy.
So if my internet is down when you happen to ping me my system shuts off and I can’t play anything? You don’t see the issue with that?
4. Disk installs.
You have a 500Gb HD right? A Blu-ray holds 25Gb right? By my math that is 20 games excluding any DLC I D/L’ed, avatar items, saved videos or whatever else I wish to keep. Hmmm….
Granted the Devs may not use the full 25gb on a disk but I think you get the point.
Seems to me you are forcing me to game the way you want me to game and NOT the way I want to game, Ummm who is the one that spent their money here?
Just Wait For E3.
"Hardware wise the PS4 isn't BC but Gaikai will be able to run older gen games. Now I know it won't run every PS1, PS2 and PS3 but at least Sony is offering something rather than nothing at all. "
.......... But you would have to be connected to the internet at all times to play those games. + it will not be free. To be fair, you could just keep your ps3/360.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? You can't bash Microsoft and give Sony a pass. Its the same situation (not entirely).
Why dont we all just skip next gen!!!!!!