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Nintendo probably thinks the team will be dedicated to stopping emulation. Games must be preserved in their original platforms after all /s.
Oh God, there are 40 year old video games
Pong is over 50. For that matter, Tennis for Two is coming up on 70.
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Yuzu! Fuck nintendo
Should…should we tell Squizzy?
Great thing about the internet, nothing is really gone
See you in 3 years when the whole team is cut. You know, for not making any money.
IDK, MS really went all the way with backwards compatibility. They literally built emulators for the 360 and OG Xbox in order to let people play old games using old disks they already owned.
I’d be shocked if they didn’t stay committed to this.
I hope I’m wrong but companies are about cutting good ideas for short term gains.
The Series S doesn’t have a disk drive.
The rumored Series X refresh doesn’t have a disk drive.
It’d be hard for Microsoft to remain committed to game preservation in that way without them.
To me, this sounds more like they’re looking at Nintendo’s virtual store playbook and wondering how many times they can sell the same games to their customer base.
Series X refresh isn’t a rumor, and it doesn’t have a disk drive. Microsoft also laid off their physical media dept entirely.
That was seemingly really only to dunk on Sony and secure another year of sales.
They could stand to make a bunch of money reselling old games with 4k, vrr, HDR, and calling it remastered.
They could which sounds like this team or they can make do the GTA route and make a masterpiece again.
irony is they’re closing the 360 online store this year
It was still running?!
Consumer friendly products? What is going on?
They are loosing to Sony so they have to find new ways of competing for business. You know, how it’s supposed to work.
Wish it worked that way more often.
You know what, this makes me so happy that I’ll give ‘em that:
“Good job capitalism!”
Now I got to go wash my fingers for typing that.
But just remember that during the 360/PS3 era when MS were in the lead, it was Sony trying to by all consumer friendly, advocating online cross play and having free online service.
MS weren’t interested then.
they have to find new ways of competing for business
Yeah haha. Regrettably doing right by the consumers because a competitor is.
Although I would not be surprised if they find a way to make a money pit out of it. (Such as not being chill like Sony and releasing on steam, forcing users on to the Windows store)
XBOX Game Vault is now an exclusive bullet point for XBOX GAME PASS Ultimate!
Good forward compatibility with spec bumps might be a good way to sell people on new consoles without exclusives yet.
I love that
Forward compatibility? I get backward compatibility, but FORWARD compatibility?
It’s future backward compatibility.
Ensuring that future titles have a preservation plan as part of the development?
I think that just means not making any crazy technological decisions that will likely make games incompatible on future hardware. A great example was the PS3’s cell processor. It was excellent tech when used properly, but absolutley not “forward compatible”
In fairness here, you can’t predict the future.
Cell was just PowerPC as was the Xbox 360’s Xenon chip. PowerPC is all but dead now, but the same thing could happen to x86 or ARM in the future. No king rules forever.
I suppose, but in my mind, unless an absolutely revolutionary technology takes the world by storm, the industry wouldn’t just up and abandon x86 and ARM unless compatibility was decent. We’re talking ablut a world where businesses still use Windows XP because their software won’t work on later versions.
I mean Computers basically kind of have it
I should be able to play any games that releases in the next 5 years on my current set up
Think of all the old games that are no longer playable because the master servers are no longer online.
Right? Like isn’t that a joke in Homestar
I am wondering if her father is called James.
I refuse to build up expectations, the little I’ll hope for they will mess up. This is the same company that tried to make physical games unsharable long-term.
To be honest they’ve been doing this for a while with backwards compatibility so it’s continuation to make it forwards compatible as well. It’s a bummer they’re not following up with physical copies but it’s clear there’s been a lack of demand for Xbox games. Seems like they want to go the Steam route which I’m all for.
As long as it brings some focus on backward compatibility at Sony too, I’m all for it. But I don’t have too much hope sadly.
By the way, Sarah Bond looks great and I feel weak not hating her even if she works for Microsoft.
I wonder if MSFT would build an Xbox app that emulates Xbox, 360 and Xbox One on PC, making it possible to circumvent the need of cross saves/cross progression of older games. Currently it is annoying that you can’t just pick up a game on Xbox and continue playing it on your handheld gaming device for most games.
[x] Doubt
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Ah yes. Unless it’s shitting on something, or something negative, it’s not news. Or something anyone would be interested in.
