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HOLY S*IT!!!!!!!!!!!! 145 72.14%
 
NO, NO!!! ITS NOT TRUE, P... 10 4.98%
 
YES, YES!!!!!!!! 45 22.39%
 
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Chasesdaddy84 said:
Anyone else think Sony would avoid this because they have been banking in on selling a 'New' Remastered versions of their last gen games. If they allowed people to play their old PS3 versions they would lose a lot of money. Or am I missing something?

This is a BIG move for Microsoft. I have PS4 and Wii U, but the fact I could go on Amazon and order 360 games many AAA titles for like $5 to $10 bucks and play them on my X Box One, on top of the already impressive X One library of games... My brother has only an X One and we gamed together our whole lives until this gen...

I think Microsoft just snagged another customer. Looks like I'll be stuck with all 3 this generation... shucks ;p


Pretty much agree with what you said.



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vivster said:
Zappykins said:

Um, what?  No, they are very different.

Under the hood, the original Xbox has more in common with the Xbox One than the 360.

The similarities is they both run DirectX - which is usually very backwards compatible, except the break from 9 to 10.  And Xbox One is DirectX 12, while 360 is DirectX 9.  (For reference the original Xbox is DX 8.)

That they got an emulator on the Xbox One to run X360 games and with improved rates is quite a nice accomplishment.

 

I'll believe that there is an emulator when I see it. From the info we have now and the fact that you have to download the whole game with a pretty small library of games it is clear for me that they merely ported 360 games to the X1 with the DVD as the license key. I really doubt there is any emulating involved.

I take it you are not a computer programmer, or computer tech.  The hardware on the 360 is very different than the Xbox One.  I'm not even sure what to say to 'I really doubt there is any emulating involved.'  It's kind of like saying a car that run on diesel could run on gasoline with no modifications.  But actually more different than that.

 Yes, 100 games is a ‘small library’ lol.  It's more than I own.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

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Zappykins said:
vivster said:
Zappykins said:
 

Um, what?  No, they are very different.

Under the hood, the original Xbox has more in common with the Xbox One than the 360.

The similarities is they both run DirectX - which is usually very backwards compatible, except the break from 9 to 10.  And Xbox One is DirectX 12, while 360 is DirectX 9.  (For reference the original Xbox is DX 8.)

That they got an emulator on the Xbox One to run X360 games and with improved rates is quite a nice accomplishment.

 

I'll believe that there is an emulator when I see it. From the info we have now and the fact that you have to download the whole game with a pretty small library of games it is clear for me that they merely ported 360 games to the X1 with the DVD as the license key. I really doubt there is any emulating involved.

I take it you are not a computer programmer, or computer tech.  The hardware on the 360 is very different than the Xbox One.  I'm not even sure what to say to 'I really doubt there is any emulating involved.'  It's kind of like saying a car that run on diesel could run on gasoline with no modifications.  But actually more different than that.

 Yes, 100 games is a ‘small library’ lol.  It's more than I own.

 

I agree with almost all of this.



Exactly how do I get it? I am a preview members and understood that we would get access today?



Puppyroach said:
Exactly how do I get it? I am a preview members and understood that we would get access today?


Yes, but only for a few games.



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super6646 said:
Puppyroach said:
Exactly how do I get it? I am a preview members and understood that we would get access today?


Yes, but only for a few games.

Yes but I liked the list and own most of them :). How do I get them? The store seems super slow atm...



sc94597 said:
Aeolus451 said:
Well, the announcement was a surprise and good for gamers but aren't some people overreacting to it? To be fair, the PS3 was backwards compatible early in last gen but people really didn't want it. It did not help sales. 

Because the other platforms were also backwards compatible. In this scenario the Ps4 is not backwards compatible while the Wii U and XBO are backwards compatible. If somebody wants to play 7th generation  games, and don't want extra 7th generation consoles sitting around, then they will benefit from gettings one of these two other platforms. When the differences between an XBO and PS4 can be essentially counted with a single person's hands, any small bonus feature becomes much bigger than it would've been otherwise. 


I more or less agree with you but I still think that people are overreacting to it. The feature only means something to 360 owners because they are the only ones that benefit from it. I suppose that's who they are targetting with it though. 

I didn't know that the wii u was backwards compatible.



Puppyroach said:
super6646 said:


Yes, but only for a few games.

Yes but I liked the list and own most of them :). How do I get them? The store seems super slow atm...


I don't know. I currently don't own any of those games, so I can't try them :P.



I still don't see this as a system seller in the long run.



the-pi-guy said:
HollyGamer said:

actually it's not a rocket science, SONY did this on PSN with their PS2 and PS1 games for PS3. I also have a doubt how Power PC able to emulate perfectly on hardware and software level on Mediacore spec like Jaguar.  If they can do emulation i bet it only emulate old games that came on Xbox one early first year. If they can do i bet PS4 able to do the same thing but with more dificulty, assuming Xbox One does the emulation on hardware and software level.

It's software emulation.  There is no hardware to play last gen games.  

Sony also used software emulation only after the second generation of PS3s.  None of the slims had hardware.  

Probably,  but i doubt that. Because no physical copy of PS2 games able to play on my slim PS3, so my conclusion is all the PS2 and PS1 games on PNS are some kind of raw port (port of games but without enhancing the graphic). And i think the same thing goes with how the emultion worked on Xbox One. And also Phil Spencer also said that we have to download the games if we want to use the physical copy using ( my prediction is the same with Vivster here using verivication of original disc on every Xbox 360 games )