X-Box 360 Backwards Compatibility?

In utter amazement, the supply of X-Box 360’s has been severely limited and people were lined up far earlier then they should have been last night into this morning just for the chance to get one console. At least some people were smart enough to not research, and were told this morning in front of some Target stores that they did not have -any- 360’s at all, and that they’d not only wasted their time and effort but also spoiled any chance of getting one from any other store.

I know that I am certainly not waiting in line, as much as I’d love to play a brand new football game in High-def so that I can see the sweat on the player’s back as I manually control him to drop his pants and strut like a chicken around the sidelines, to pick up a minituarized computer that can plug into my TV. Amazingly, most computers can hook up to TV’s now, and most X-Box games are ported to PC rather quickly even with some improvements.

Now that I’ve said that, I will almost certainly own a 360 within the next 12 months, as games such as Oblivion (being created under my feet at this very moment) will be filling my nightime bedsheet with goo until I finally breakdown and get one. I do loathe the machine though, as pretty as it may be, because Microsoft has decided to make the system Backwards Compatible only on a limited basis. Instead of allowing you to play any of the previous games you may have/borrow from friends on the system, only a delicous selection of 200 games will initially be allowed to run on the new console.

I would profess that this is a genius move, as Microsoft could use this to simply regulate the quality of games to come out for their systems, threatening that the pure crap which populates the market will not be playable on their future systems, as well as limiting the consumer and used games market immensely. The problem with this theory arises swiftly and with great justice, as reading down the list your eyes may cross such treasure troves of feces as Barbie Horse Adventure! For the love of all the is holy and sacred in the world, CAN I PLAY BARBIE ON MY 360?! That question once drove me to tears at night, for fear that I would be denied my primping and grooming, as well as canting and neighing, when I purchase my new X-Box. Perhaps this is simply a larger hook tossed into the mouths of the College-age wannabe fathers that play games such as Madden, “But honey, it has something for the kid’s too!”

Any father that lets his daughter play such a game should be castrated, and then have his balls cut off, but I digress. It seems that Microsoft and Sony have changed their PR campaigns from awesome to “Let’s do things that piss off a lot of our customers and make our products worse, as well as limiting the game-market and almost utterly destroying every EB games in existence.” While the destruction of EB may not be a big stain in the history of mankind, and I personally almost never buy used games……………..wait, why the heck am I complaining about these things?

But I still think backwards compatibility is the biggest selling point of the 360 right now, and by limiting it they have done something very stupid.

– Logs Out of Life –

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6139702.html