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I guess there goes my hope for Rallisport Challenge 2 being backwards compatible. It's the only game that I use my OG Xbox for, and it can be a little finicky at times.It sucks that the round of 70+ games that they added to backwards compatability is going to be the last one they do for the forseeable future, but knocking down Max Payne, FEAR and finally completing the Skate franchise is certainly playing to the crowd, alongside dropping Halo Infinite's multiplayer.
Certainly an incredibly strong showing in that front from Microsoft.
Even before this point, I seriously doubted that Microsoft would care to actually make their past Xbox racing games backwards compatible. Considering that Rallisport Challenge is probably up in the air in terms of who actually owns the franchise name (I doubt DICE, considering DICE almost never acknowledges their past before Battlefield to begin with) and PGR is, well...completely dead (you can make up your own reasons why Microsoft doesn't acknowledge it) and Forza's trials and tribulations with being delisted are well known.I guess there goes my hope for Rallisport Challenge 2 being backwards compatible. It's the only game that I use my OG Xbox for, and it can be a little finicky at times.
Yep.Even before this point, I seriously doubted that Microsoft would care to actually make their past Xbox racing games backwards compatible. Considering that Rallisport Challenge is probably up in the air in terms of who actually owns the franchise name (I doubt DICE, considering DICE almost never acknowledges their past before Battlefield to begin with) and PGR is, well...completely dead (you can make up your own reasons why Microsoft doesn't acknowledge it) and Forza's trials and tribulations with being delisted are well known.
Still, I really think that for 95% of publishers with racing games, or even games in general with licensed cars or especially music, the benefits of being widely available and preserved by Microsoft's backwards compatibility probably aren't able to outweigh the potential headaches that comes from setting up new deals for said licensed content that will probably have to be renewed in five, ten years time. Which is why you got that quote from the Xbox rep - most developers aren't willing to pay it, and those that do probably see it as a drop in the bucket, but with most upsides instead of down.
The gta 3 and tony hawk versions were better than the ps2 versions on the og xbox, remember my friends being upset about that because they didnt want to buy oneI remember seeing a James Bond game on the OG back in 2001 or something and I always wanted one. I finally got an Xbox 360 Christmas 2006 and that made me stop playing on the Playstation platform. If I grew up playing Playstation, my life would have been completely different. I probably would have done more with myself.
PSN didn't hook me as much as Xbox Live because not everyone had a mic to work with PS. It was that extra layer of interaction that blew me away. I was so used to playing console games offline or playing PC without a mic as well.
To Xbox and the thousands of hours of life I've wasted away.
Got two of them, and I'm still looking for more. They provide a good workout when moving!So get yourself a lovely CRT..
Got two of them, and I'm still looking for more. They provide a good workout when moving!
Still the best way to play games, setting aside screen size or clarity. The virtually zero latency is unbeatable.So get yourself a lovely CRT..