Downloadable xbox games coming to the 360

[xtop]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/13/fa...halo-december/

Official Xbox Magazine has the scoop on the Fall Xbox 360 dashboard update, and you better believe it's a doozy. UK-based CVG reports that the December 2 update will allow 360 owners to download and play Microsoft-published Xbox 1 games on their 360s.

Let's say that one more time: come December 2, you will be able to download full, original Xbox games to the Xbox 360. The initial list of available games includes Fable, Indigo Prophecy, Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex, Burnout 3, and, of course, Halo: Combat Evolved.

Games will cost approximately 1200 Microsoft Points, or $15 USD. Microsoft plans on re-releasing as many Xbox 1 titles as possible through Marketplace. Look out, Virtual Console.

sounds pretty sweet to me. maybe this will wake sony up and get emulation and ps2 downloads for the 40gb's. plus theres a few ps1 titles I'd like to have.

wake up sony!

I'm hoping for enhanced graphics and faster load times. load times are obviously going to be faster..but lets hope for a reslution bump

[Xerious]

Originally Posted by xtop

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/13/fa...halo-december/

Official Xbox Magazine has the scoop on the Fall Xbox 360 dashboard update, and you better believe it's a doozy. UK-based CVG reports that the December 2 update will allow 360 owners to download and play Microsoft-published Xbox 1 games on their 360s.

Let's say that one more time: come December 2, you will be able to download full, original Xbox games to the Xbox 360. The initial list of available games includes Fable, Indigo Prophecy, Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex, Burnout 3, and, of course, Halo: Combat Evolved.

Games will cost approximately 1200 Microsoft Points, or $15 USD. Microsoft plans on re-releasing as many Xbox 1 titles as possible through Marketplace. Look out, Virtual Console.

sounds pretty sweet to me. maybe this will wake sony up and get emulation and ps2 downloads for the 40gb's. plus theres a few ps1 titles I'd like to have.

wake up sony!

I'm hoping for enhanced graphics and faster load times. load times are obviously going to be faster..but lets hope for a reslution bump

why would there be a load time if it's streamed off the HDD?

[JakeNRoland]

Sounds like a great way for Microsoft to rape it's customers of more money. Who wants to play old games when they buy a new console? Or pay more than $10 for them? Holy lord. You'll play it once or twice and then go, "Man this feels old and lame," and then go back to playing Bioshock or any other cool new game.

I'd rather Sony not 'wake up' and continue providing original content.

[SixAxiS]

Just go buy the old games at bargain bins. No big deal.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Xerious

why would there be a load time if it's streamed off the HDD?

well it still needs to load lol. just gonna be a lot faster off the hard drive.

and to the other guy. sony is raping for ps1 downloads, so they are no different. nobody is forcing you to buy them. I'd love to have some ps2 games on my hd.

[joeorc]

Originally Posted by xtop

well it still needs to load lol. just gonna be a lot faster off the hard drive.

and to the other guy. sony is raping for ps1 downloads, so they are no different. nobody is forcing you to buy them. I'd love to have some ps2 games on my hd.

all the core xbox360 owners are going to need to buy that HARDDRIVE to use that function..so its good that Microsoft can sell more of those 20 GB hardrives

[Damiesmallz]

Originally Posted by xtop

well it still needs to load lol. just gonna be a lot faster off the hard drive.

and to the other guy. sony is raping for ps1 downloads, so they are no different. nobody is forcing you to buy them. I'd love to have some ps2 games on my hd.

Seriously.

[Bigdog]

So in other words they are going to offer the same thing Sony does with it's ps3 store except that Microsoft will be charging on average of twice the price for it's games then Sony does. Wow yea that is some doozy of a announcement.

[Terjyn]

Hope you have an Elite, cause you aren't getting too many of these to fit in 13 gig.

[Starkiller]

I’m not a Microsoft fan by any means. After all I went through 3 Xbox 360s in a single year before I gave up on them. But I must say that I think this is a great idea and wish Sony would emulate Xbox Live more.

But I do have the right to change my mind when Home gets released…

[heathward]

this will be deleted soon. what was the point of this?

[Copywriter]

Yawn.

Why do people pay good money on next-gen systems and then want to play last-gen crap?

Guess I'm in the minority, but I don't call this news. I'm sorry, were these Xbox games not already available?

You'd think it was Super Mario or 10 Yard Fight being available.

[xtop]

at least compare apple to apples you guys. sony provides ps1 games not ps2. of course xbox would be more expensive.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by heathward

this will be deleted soon. what was the point of this?

just because its about the xbox we can't discuss it?

move along if you have nothing to add

[Joe Cain]

Originally Posted by xtop

just because its about the xbox we can't discuss it?

move along if you have nothing to add

Umm---it doesn't belong in "Blu-ray Games and PS3," at least. Probably headed for Off-Topic any minute now...

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Joe Cain

Umm---it doesn't belong in "Blu-ray Games and PS3," at least. Probably headed for Off-Topic any minute now...

well instead of calling for a ban or delete or bash the xbox. why not dicuss how this will effect possible ps2 downloads. jeez you guys

[mgonzo2u]

non sequitur

[AikonEnt]

Originally Posted by Copywriter

Yawn.

Why do people pay good money on next-gen systems and then want to play last-gen crap?

Exactly. If you want to play xbox games, buy an xbox. Same goes for ps2 games. I've tried some of the original xbox games that I own on the 360 and to be honest they look rubbish after playing in hi-def. Same goes for the PS3, I noticed you could download the original Everybody's Golf (PS1) from the PSN and as I actually owned the game on disc I thought I'd try it. Garbage! Though I'll be honest, PS2's Killzone looks pretty good played on the PS3

But at least the PSN downloads are pretty dirt cheap. Who's going to pay 2 or 3 times as much for an old xbox game? Plus you wouldn't fit many on the poxy little hard drive the 360 has (non elite version). As someone has already mentioned, at best you're going to have 13gb free space.

[Luis_A51]

For $15 id much rather go out and buy a used copy of a game (PS2). Downloading is for suckers, you dont own anything.

Virtual console is more effective because:
1) it covers NES, SNES, N64, Genesis and Turbografix 16. None of those systems have ever been compatible with one another. You would have to buy all those systems individually to play those games. The 360 and PS3 are already compatible with previous gen games.

2) Due to age, a lot of VC games are hard to find and/or more expensive to buy used compared to from VC. Pretty much all those games the 360 is getting are bargain-bin games at this stage (not saying they arent GOOD, just saying legacy xbox games are dirt cheap right now)

For the record, I do have a substantial PS1 and PS2 collection. Hasnt grown at all in months (since GoW 2 really) but I still go back to some classics from time to time.

[Pilam69]

Originally Posted by xtop

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sounds pretty sweet to me. maybe this will wake sony up and get emulation and ps2 downloads for the 40gb's. plus theres a few ps1 titles I'd like to have.

wake up sony!

In case you missed it, 40 GB systems will NEVER have emulation. PS games require game specific emulators and with the PS1/2 library there is no way they can support that many emulations. No one would be satisfied and they would spend all their time doing emulators and no time developing anything new.

Sony would simply be shooting themselves in the foot by offering PS2 games online right now, they are still selling too many of them to do this.

If you wanted backwards compatibility you should have purchased a 20/60/80GB model. Sony has been VERY clear that they will not be supporting backwards compatibility with the new models but that they will CONSIDER it for future models if the market dictates it.

X-Dud has much less of an issue with this since their initial library was so small and the fact that they didn't support full backwards compatibility EVER.