MS is funny

Its probably more accurate to say that the GAMES will be forwards compatible rather than the Xbox itself...





regardless, this is just like a PC for example, buy a copy of Crysis, play it on your current PC rig at Med-High settings - then later on when you upgrade your CPU and Graphics card you'll be able to play the game at higher settings.

This means that our games will have stored content unable to be used on the Xbox 360 and will just bust itself out of the disc when on the 720 or does this mean it'll download an 'update' which will do this?

Hey Microsoft we don't wan't an "Xbox720". We would rather have an "Xbox420". This keeps you in the whole "one upping" Sony in the marketing name game. and TRUST ME when I say you will appeal to Soooooo many gamers you couldn't possibly imagine. I mean think of the marketing Blitz you can do. T-shirts that say "I got 420". You can make the official release date on April, 20th 20?? at 4:20pm (no wait forget the time portion cause again trust me the gamers will be late....)You can even keep your green color sceme and all. I should patent this idea...ooops to late...

The Xbox is already suffering space issues with its DVD media. This isn't going to help. The entire game disc will have to have 2 sets of polygonal models, maps, effects and God knows what. Don't think so some how...

The downside to this is, I'd rather developers did not waist time and resources investing in features for something that isn't even out yet. I'd personally prefer they concentrated on the project before them, because if i bought a game for my [360, ps3, Wii, whatever] I'm not thinking "oh, I sure can't wait 4 years to play this on the next console to get those extra features!"



If anyone disagrees with me, I would really enjoy seeing your side on this :)

In other words this means that the new Xbox will be backwards compatible to old X360 games with added upscaling.



This is still backwards compatibility.....



Why does M$ want to confuse the general public by making it difficult to understand? Oh, that's right. To do something that had already been done before but now they just gave it a new name and the people went crazy.

Look at you lot given me no stars on here, just because I speak the truth lol! Never mind guys!

That's awesome. But, no. M$ won't because 420 is associated with a green colored leaf plant known as Marijuana. I mean, seriously?

It is basckwards compatibility with upscaling. Nothing more.



Definition of Forward Compatibility: "To gracefully accept input intended for later versions of a said system. A forward-compatible system is expected to gracefully handle input which is intended for a newer version, by ignoring the unknowns and selecting the known subset of the data that the system is capable of handling."



By the above definition if X720 plays X360 games better that means X720 is backwards compatible with X360 and it is actually X360 which is forwards compliant.



Furthermore, there is no 'advancement' This is a tried and proven concept already well under production by many dvd players.



You are right about one thing though. The public aren't idiots. Except of course the ones that actually believe this is forward compatibility and when they play their X360 game on it it will be a whole new experience. It will not be.



Finally. The public will go crazy. Not now but when X720 or whatever is released. And M$ will use this misleading definition of forward-compatibility as a front to make people buy their next-gen console and those people are the idiots i'm talking about.



No. Buying the next Xbox doesn't make you an idiot. I myself might buy one. But thinking for a second that this is some miracle new technology IS.