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[TigerKnee]

This article seems to say so

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7878662/

My apologies if this has been reposted

 

[Timen]

yes it is, so is ps3 and revolution

 

[DaMan121]

Limited BC, for selected games (no idea, pretty vague), and most likely use of emulation software (urgh!). Search button is not working, so you are forgiven.

 

[Yusaku]

The language at the press event was "backwards compatability for 'top selling' xbox games." I take that to mean "We'll let you play Halo 2 and not much else."

 

[Shogmaster]

You are like 1500 posts too late.

It's BC through emulation, which means some poor coders will have to right emu code specific to each game. That's why it's only for "popular titles". My guess is that like 50 top XBox game emu code will come within each X360's hard drive. And more will be added with enough demand as LIVE downloads.

 

[Project Midway]

So what does this limited BC mean..? only few games (first party?) are supported? Or is just MS playing safe when they cant guarantee 100% BC compatability..?

edit: Shog answered already...

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Yeah, looks like the most popular titles, like the Halos and whatnot will be 100% compatible with BC for the system. I'm sure that as time goes on, they will have found workarounds (dealing with the proprietary nature of the some games' coding to nVidia hardware) for almost all the games...probably all of them at some point...and will update regularly via Live and probably even demo disks and game software.

Ummm...yeah, Shogmaster said it. :lol