Xbox 2 will NOT be backwards compatible

[Pop Smith]

Sources close to Microsoft's senior Xbox executives have confirmed that the company does not intend to make its next-generation console, which is set to be launched by late 2005, backwards compatible with existing Xbox software.

Speculation about the backwards compatibility functionality has been rife since it emerged that Xbox 2 - codenamed Xenon - will have radically different hardware to the original system, with a non-x86 processor, no hard drive and an ATI, rather than NVIDIA, graphics chipset, all of which would make running Xbox titles on the platform very difficult.


GamesIndustry.biz has now learned that Microsoft does not plan to provide any backwards compatibility in the next-generation Xenon platform - and indeed, that senior executives at the company don't believe backwards compatibility to be an important feature for consoles.

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*Microsoft hands winners trophy to Sony*

[AXmichigan]

my god
xbox 2 will get more @$$ raped then a prison movie by ps3

[JiveTurkey]

Amen brother. The backwards compatibility is one of the 2 things PS has that Xbox doesnt. It would foolish not to.

[AXmichigan]

yuup
idiots
and no hdd now
ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssstupid asses

[Pop Smith]

I think that not including Backwards compatability is an anti-piracy step, cuz if it was backwards compatible it would be *cough* easier *cough* for modders to hack the second XBox (which is gonna happen anyway, even if its threw exploits like the cube). Looks like M$ is gonna loose this round of the war too.

[AXmichigan]

yea
its cuz theyre stupid
they musta got whatever theyre smokin from bush

[MrCaine01]

It seems that M$ doesn't like the idea of making Xenon backwards compatible with it's current xbox line. I got this from an article on Xbox-scene.com

personally I think it's a huge mistake for M$, simply for the fact of how much money we've poured into our game libaries as is. When I got my PS2 I sold my old PS1 and I didn;t lose a single game in the process, so I already ahd something worth playing when I got my PS2. MS really needs to consider it some more but I think backwards capatilbity adds to a system.

[AXmichigan]

if microsoft does everythin that this latest rumor says
then its goin down to heeeeeeeeeeeeell