Xbox 2 Won't play Xbox 1 games

by Christopher Kirkman · Published June 22, 2004 · Updated October 13, 2014

Trade publication, gameindustry.biz reported yesterday that sources close to Microsoft have denied it’s next generation console, Xbox 2, any backward compatibility. Assumably this has been done to be the first one out of the gate with a next gen console, by an estimate full year.

Industry analysts and gamers alike are calling it a bad move on the Redmond mega-corps part. This news comes on the heels of an announcement revealing that there would be no hard drive in the unit, harking back to a slower and less convenient memmory card approach to saving games and settings.

Microsoft big-wigs are convinced that backwards compatibilty is a lowly feature and that gamers simply want power, not longevity. This seems to follow their strategy for the Windows software, but in the case of gaming consoles, Microsoft isn’t working with 80% of the industry. Sony has that.

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Christopher Kirkman

Christopher is an old school nerd: designer, animator, code monkey, writer, gamer and Star Wars geek. As owner and Editor-In-Chief of Media Geeks, he takes playing games and watching movies very seriously. You know, in between naps.