So, who wants to download old Xbox 1 games on their Xbox 360 for 1200 (or so) MS points? Because come December 4th you will be able to do that and more! (Don't forget the rumored DivX support being added to the console as well)
Microsoft reportedly confirmed the news to the Official Xbox Magazine, and told OXM that the biggest new feature to be added was a service to let you download original Xbox games such as Halo and Fable. Games will reportedly cost 1200 MS points ($15 USD, GBP 10.20, EUR 13.96) and one would assume the service will work alot like the Xbox Live Arcade service does.
Right now the line up of games to be offered are: Halo, Fable, Indigo Prophecy, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Burnout 3.
Not much else is known about this service, as the story is literally just breaking now. Also revealed in today's news are (finally) plans for the downloadable movie service for Europe to (maybe) launch with the Fall dashboard update. North American users have had this service for quite awhile now in the Marketplace, but Europeans can finally get in on the action! Of course, you can only "rent" a movie and once you "open the wrapper" so to speak, the movie is only good for 24 hours. You can however keep the movie/video on your hard drive for two weeks.
View: More information on the Fall Dashboard update @ Eurogamer
Microsoft reportedly confirmed the news to the Official Xbox Magazine, and told OXM that the biggest new feature to be added was a service to let you download original Xbox games such as Halo and Fable. Games will reportedly cost 1200 MS points ($15 USD, GBP 10.20, EUR 13.96) and one would assume the service will work alot like the Xbox Live Arcade service does.
Right now the line up of games to be offered are: Halo, Fable, Indigo Prophecy, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Burnout 3.
Not much else is known about this service, as the story is literally just breaking now. Also revealed in today's news are (finally) plans for the downloadable movie service for Europe to (maybe) launch with the Fall dashboard update. North American users have had this service for quite awhile now in the Marketplace, but Europeans can finally get in on the action! Of course, you can only "rent" a movie and once you "open the wrapper" so to speak, the movie is only good for 24 hours. You can however keep the movie/video on your hard drive for two weeks.
View: More information on the Fall Dashboard update @ Eurogamer
It's out of MIcrosoft's hands. It's the people who developed the game who makes the backwards compatibility patches. Microsoft just verifies and approves or denies them.
Either way, this addition is an absolute joke. We want real features. High-quality voice codec, the ability to adjust my microphone sensitivity, a headset that doesn't blow ass, reliable download servers that will download a 500MB file in less than an hou, and finally, games that don't suck.
If this is what they mean by Xbox Live is about to get better than ever, then then they retards.
Not quite. Microsoft's responsible for writing the emulator that the Xbox 1 games run on. It's definitely within their power to update the BC any time they see fit. With this new marketing ploy, they'll have to update their emulator or endure a lack of sales due to all of the current glitches.
Also, bear in mind that if you already own these titles, they'll run from disc just as well as they'll run from your HDD. Between the price gouging and the DRM lock-out "feature", you're better off buying the disc versions.
The XBOX 1 game idea sounds pretty good, however.
£10 is just not a realistic price and £5 to rent a film, HD or not, is just insane.
All the same if the price is right I can see this been a nice service especially for people who have the 120gig hard drive and have no Xbox 1 games... ill be interested to hear more but i don’t think its something ill use.
It basically says, this is a rumor, but we're wording it carefully so it doesn't look like a rumor.
It basically says, this is a rumor, but we're wording it carefully so it doesn't look like a rumor.
Nope, this was confirmed later in the day by Microsoft. Its being called "Xbox Originals"
Furthermore, why would you spend nearly 20 bucks to download a game you already own? This is just another scheme by Microsoft to get more customers for the holidays. Sorry, but Microsoft is going to have to do a lot better than this to convince me to renew my Xbox Live account.
You don't need a Gold account to make purchases on Xbox Live Marketplace; anybody with a Silver account can buy stuff too.
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