M$ TELLS XBOX OWNERS TO BEND OVER
Today a ton of news outlets are reporting on what most of us already knew. The Xbox 2 will not be backwards compatible with the current Xbox - and indeed, that senior executives at the company don't believe backwards compatibility to be an important feature for consoles.
For a while it was believed that M$ had retained a team of hardware emulation experts to work on the problem - although concerns over the viability of such an endeavour were voiced by some experts, especially regarding the company's ability to emulate the functions of the graphics unit in the Xbox without violating NVIDIA's intellectual property rights.
That's right all you Xbox owners, in the future when you want to play Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden 2 you better have both of your 15 pound consoles hooked up to the TV and ready to go. Another stupid mistake by Bill. And if you don't believe us take a look at this report from Wall Street Analysts.
The report says "In the event that Xbox Next is not backward compatible, we think that the device will be very slow to grow its footprint," the report warns, while elsewhere it suggests that such a move could damage the company's long-term prospects for the console.
"We do expect Microsoft to launch its console first, perhaps as early as 2005," says Pachter. "Should it choose to do so without backward compatibility or significant third-party software support, we expect to see its first-mover advantage evaporate."
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