As announced in my last entry on the Playstation 3, Sony is going to have full game library backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2 but Microsoft is being more vague:

Currently, the company is only promising that Xbox 360 will be compatible “top-selling” Xbox games, and not the entire catalog of first generation games. The problem, apparently, is that Xbox 360 runs on a completely different hardware platform than the original Xbox, and Microsoft will have to custom-create software fixes, or shims

What do they mean by “top-selling” Xbox games? Halo and Halo2 are going to work, but maybe not many others? I don’t know the complete list of games but it seems to me that if Microsoft doesn’t come out with full backwards compatibility they are making a grave miscalculation. Note to Redmond: do not rip a book from Nintendo, make sure all Xbox games are backward compatible or you’ve just pissed all over your existing library.

This article also states that Microsoft will stop supporting the original Xbox with new titles after this year, but that conflicts with an earlier report which said they’d have new games coming out into 2007. Wonder which is correct?

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