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Hynad on 07 June 2013
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DirtyP2002 said:
LiquorandGunFun said:

i can make a new pc and load steam and play pretty much everything.
situation: 10 years from now a new xb2 comes out. no bc, and they stop supporting xbo, sooo even with internet can you still play your games if you have some old gaming nostalgia one boring weekend? if they are not supporting it anymore? Its like i can do that with every system i have ever owned, i have kept them and go back from time to time and enjoy them still today. Not the the xbo... im just about done with consoles at this point, we will see about sony.

at least my kids will be able to know what a real gaming console was like to actually own.

 

edit: plus steam has much better sales, M$ still wants like full price for old shitty games and the only sale i remember being worth a shit on xbl was when i bought kameo which was a launch title for $5 on sale bc its normally $20 : /     and its what 8 years later?


1st: This goes for EVERY console ever made.

2nd: You complain that you can't play these games when MS decides to shut XBL down (How likely is this in the first place?) AND you say Steam is better because of this in the same paragraph. What do you think will happen when Steam decides to kill its service? (Just as likely as MS shutting down XBL)

3rd: I can't play my old PC games on newer hardware, sorry. I have a great collection of MS Dos, Windows 95, Windows 2000 games that won't run on Windows 7 or Windows 8


1st: No. The Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES, Mastersystem, Megadrive/Genesis, SNES, TurboGraphx16, NeoGeo, Saturn, PS, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, XBox, XBox 360, Wii, PS3 and Wii U (among some others I'm forgetting) allow you to play offline from the get go. These consoles don't need to be supported online to work. Some of them will have their multi player modes removed, but your discs and cartridges still work in the consoles without an internet connection. You can go back to those old consoles and enjoy your games just fine. So, I really don't see why you're saying it's the same for every consoles ever made. You probably misread what he said.

2nd: MS has an history of not supporting their old consoles. Sure, it's only one console so far: their first XBox. But we can't be sure yet if they'll keep the 360 servers up or not. Not that it'd be such a big deal though. A non issue for me. Because I don't play online much. Still, the XBO is "online required".  So if they shut the console's servers once its gen is over, what are we left with? Games that don't know anymore. Unlike the consoles I listed above. Now, considering the gen is just starting, we don't know how things will evolve. For all we know, they could unlock the "online requirements at the end of the gen so people get to keep on enjoying the games they bought once the next generation starts... But that's all speculative and assuming they care about their customers. 

3rd: Emulators for older PC games are readily available and easy to set-up. Recently, I wanted to replay The Day of the Tentacle. A classic that I really enjoyed back in the days. But it's a DOS game. I looked online and found out I needed the SCUMMVM emulator. Installed it, and realised I can now also play Full Throttle (an other personal favourite of mine) and basically most older Lucasart games...  Point being, If you'd really want to play those old PC games, you would.