8-bit Joystick Jake recently learned something disappointing about the Xbox 360:

First of all there is no way to transfer over your old save games from an Xbox 1 to an Xbox 360 with a hard drive so even if your games do play you can’t move your old save files over and you are going to have to start from scratch. There is no way to move them over via a memory card or over the ethernet ports. Your saved games will live and die on that old Xbox. I heard it on Xbox Live own Major Nelson’s podcast.

Doesn’t sound like Jake is going to be springing for the 360 at launch. I hear what he is saying about backwards compatibility but he is doing better with 39% compatibility compared to our abysmal 7.8%. I don’t have much in the way of saved game data so this isn’t a big deal for me, but our middle son plays all the time so I’ll have to see how he feels about this one. I’m sure it won’t kill his momentum for (hopefully) getting the 360 next Tuesday.

Six more days!