greenberet79 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:58 am
Ain't got a clue - i haven't got a PS4 or Xbox. I am however looking forward to playing NES games on the Switch when the online stuff launches. Hopefully there'll be SNES games on the way soon.
I've also bought a couple of Neo Geo games on the Switch (Garou and Super Sidekicks 3) which I've really enjoyed.
Thing is i've got all these games on my modded Wii and PSP but i'm happy to pay for the stuff i want through official channels.
Basically i'm all for old games being as accessible in as many places to as many people as possible.
Thanks for the reply. I have heard about the Neo Geo and it does have some great retro games for it. I am actually thinking of hunting down an old tv and getting one with it just to be able to play some of its games. I'm assuming you will try some of the Super Mario Brothers games from the NES as my favourite one was number 3 which I played at an uncles house once.
English Invader wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 8:01 am
GAZBEROTTEN wrote: ↑Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:17 pm
Just wondering what the Retro Gamer community and teams views are on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4s backwards compatibility?
A joke. Emulation for whatever games they can be bothered to port over which IMO makes it negligible when considering whether to buy the systems or not. I'll stick with my 360, thanks.
I will admit the only four consoles that I found to be my favourites were the Sega Mega Drive, Playstation, Playstation 2 and Xbox 360. They had the better games which appealed to me and considering they were all made by separate corporations and did far better than expected. I have hundreds of Xbox 360 games all on a disc which over the many years I have spent thousands of pounds on including the consoles all being brand new.
The Laird wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:35 am
Backwards compatibility with the 360 is one of the key reasons I went for an Xbox One. Nearly all my favourite 360 titles now play one my XB1 (hurry up and do Lollipop Chainsaw!) so there's no reason to even plug in my 360 now.
The games id like to see from the Xbox 360 Library to be made backwards compatible on Xbox One is Crackdown 2, Syndicate, The Outfit, Frontlines Fuel Of War, South Park Lets Go Tower Defence Play, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 HD. There are a lot of other Xbox 360 games that I still think should be backwards compatible like the Dead Risings but these got ported to Xbox One and also some indie games like Castle Miner Z. May never happen but I can always dream, right?
Tom_Baker wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:23 am
GAZBEROTTEN wrote: ↑Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:17 pm
My first post here on the retro gamer forum so I have decided to make it a discussion on a controversial subject.
I thought this was going to be about Jimmy Saville or Steve Davis snooker or brexit for a second.Pheeww
Wow, these seem like very controversial subjects on this forum and I'm glad I didn't make a single mention of any of them. I could post how I feel about these subjects but don't want to be going off topic and would prefer to stick with the Backwards Compatability discussion. Glad you took some time to read the thread and am hoping you will enjoy the read.
RetroBob wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:28 pm
I have an Xbox One and think it's genuinely fantastic. I have well over 200 Xbox and Xbox 360 games that I just put in and it downloads the nicely upscaled games that play on my fancy new TV. Crimson Skies looks incredible in 4K! No extra cost at all (I'm looking at you Shadow of the Colossus etc.).
For digital games, they just appear in your list of available games and you can download them.
What I do hope developers will consider doing is looking into having discussions with Microsoft and try to work out a fair deal that will allow a lot more games from the retro consoles like Xbox and Xbox 360 and to see if they can in some way upscale these games which will allow newer generation and old-school gamers the ability to enjoy some of the greatest games again even in the future. There are a ton of games that deserve an upscaling and deserve to run on the Xbox One from the retro days. It would save developers having to do ports or remakes and considering the Xbox One is capable of a lot more potential like the Xbox One X for example.
However during the lifespan of the Xbox One we could see some ports show up, but that would be down to both Microsoft and developers to decide in the future.