One of the more surprising announcements at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, was that backwards compatibility is coming to Xbox One. While Playstation 4 allows you to play PS3 games via Playstation Now, it’s a rental service not a backwards compatibility system. Microsoft offering the option for you to play your old Xbox 360 games on Xbox One does give them an edge when people are deciding which new console to buy, but will it be enough to catch up on the lead that Sony already has?
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Backwards compatibility is an amazing feature
I can play titles I missed out on last gen and buy them for dirt cheap
I'm waiting for Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Lost Odyssey, Gears of War 2
No it won't, but it's a great feature. Especially for those 360 users who haven't upgraded yet.
"Will backwards compatibility win the console war for Microsoft"
Great feature to have but NO, it will not win them the console war.
If it was presented and introduced at the beginning of this gen, It might have been a deciding factor... but now, it's too late.
Nintendo stands in utter amazement.
But even if we completely ignore the Wii U's backwards compatibility, The answer is still no.
Is it going to be more than a PR point that offers more than a trickle of seemingly random titles? Purposely have gaps in it because IP holders wont want an old game to be played?