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Message: [QUOTE="Silver Arrows, post: 13522262, member: 284861"] 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. [/QUOTE]