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Subject: Say Goodbye to Halo:CE because it probably won't be on Xbox 360
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Fact: The Xbox 360 is NOT backwards compatible

Fact: Microsoft has stated that they might build some emulators for the top selling Xbox live games

Fact: Halo:CE is NOT an Xbox live game

Conclusion: It is highly unlikely that you'll be able to play Halo:CE on the Xbox 360.

I know it sounds incredible to think they would turn their backs on the game that defined the Xbox and arguably rescued it from becoming a flop, but there it is.

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A Grunt

  • 05.20.2005 6:56 AM PDT
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That is sad news, but I didn't plan on buying one anyway. The only reason for me to get a 360 would be for Halo 360. But, this time I'm not going to wait in line at midnight. I'm going to wait to see how others like it before I put my money down. Fool me once, shame on you. And, Bill gates seems to have already made an artificial deadline. So, looks like Halo 3 is going to be yet another rushed game. So it doesn't look like I'll be getting the 360 at all.

[Edited on 5/20/2005]

  • 05.20.2005 8:31 AM PDT
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The PS3 looks like a better buy so far. Plus Unreal is going to be on it.

  • 05.20.2005 12:21 PM PDT
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unreal isnt a better game then even combat evolved, graphics and more memory wont make it a good game to play, fact is that halo is jus the best game you can get.

  • 05.20.2005 2:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: BQDYGV4RD
unreal isnt a better game then even combat evolved, graphics and more memory wont make it a good game to play, fact is that halo is jus the best game you can get.


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  • 05.20.2005 2:32 PM PDT
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360 will be a big hit if halo 3 comes out on it. a really really big hit, since halo 2 outbeat the sells for the first halo, just think how man would want halo 3????

  • 05.20.2005 3:58 PM PDT
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Hope halo 3 isn't as bad as halo2. I like halo 1 better then halo2. I personaly like Killzone better then halo2. Im new so dont flame me but i still think halo 2 sucks. Thats why im talking on the library.

  • 05.20.2005 5:13 PM PDT
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You have some "facts" wrong. Xbox 360 is and will be backwards compatible.

  • 05.20.2005 5:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: Drox
You have some "facts" wrong. Xbox 360 is and will be backwards compatible.
He's right. If you've looked at the latest Weekly Update, it says that the X-box 360 is backwards compatible. If I do get the X-box 360, I'll still play Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2.

  • 05.20.2005 6:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: sHAdeX9003
360 will be a big hit if halo 3 comes out on it. a really really big hit, since halo 2 outbeat the sells for the first halo, just think how man would want halo 3????


Well, a LOT of us bought Halo 2 not knowing how bad it was. I won't make the same mistake twice.

  • 05.20.2005 9:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: Drox
You have some "facts" wrong. Xbox 360 is and will be backwards compatible.
He's right. If you've looked at the latest Weekly Update, it says that the X-box 360 is backwards compatible. If I do get the X-box 360, I'll still play Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2.


Bungie doesn't speek for Microsoft. And, Microsoft said "some" of the most popular games will be backwards compatible. "Some" is not "all".

  • 05.20.2005 9:46 PM PDT
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That's just a rumor. Click here.

  • 05.20.2005 11:56 PM PDT
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X-Box 360 is backwards compatible. So worry not Halo:CE fans.
Union_Jack

  • 05.21.2005 6:22 AM PDT
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I think they're planning on making everything backwards compatible, but just saying "the more popular stuff" line just as a safe guard. When PS2 came out, there was a handful of first gen PSONE games that the system couldn't read for some reason. I'm sure Halo 1 will work just fine, and they just said that in case some dude is up in arms because his Blood Wake or New Legends(or insert another craptacular title of your choice) won't load up in a X360. I wouldn't worry.

  • 05.21.2005 10:01 AM PDT
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Seriusly have you been dead for the past week MICROSOFT SAID WITH THEIR OWN -blam!- MOUTHS THAT THE x360 WOULD BE COMPATABLE WITH TOP XBOX GAMES.

They specifically mentioned HALO 1.

YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO BUY ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE.
JESUS!!

SOMEONE HAS TO STOP THIS RETARED RUMOR.

Just go read gamespot.

  • 05.21.2005 11:33 PM PDT
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A QUESTIONNAIRE being taken online by Xbox Live users appears to give the final confirmation that Xbox 360 will be backwards compatible - at least, if you buy it with the optional hard drive.

The questionnaire deals with Xbox Live and says subscribers through the original Xbox will be able to play against gamers on Xbox 2 -- as long as they are playing a current generation Xbox game.

"Xbox Live is an online gaming service that works across both the current Xbox system and the future Xbox 2. You will be able to play online and compete against others across both consoles. If you are playing an Xbox game on Live you will be able to compete against people playing that same game on Xbox 2".

So XBox games will run on "XBox 2".

The hard drive comes in because the original Xbox had one and the games are written to use one.

INQUIRER reader, Epobirs suggests that the hard drive could be used to house an optimisation library of Xbox 360 native binaries to run the first-generation games, thus increasing performance.

This sounds like a pretty good idea to us, and one that has had some use previously, with FX!32 on the DEC Alpha, utilising translations of code it produced previously to optimise the next time an application ran.

It is unlikely that Xbox games running on the Xbox 360 will look any better, although it's possible that they could be anti-aliased using spare graphics power.

  • 05.22.2005 7:17 AM PDT
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i agree with the guy who says halo 1 is better than halo 2, and halo 2 isnt as good as its cracked up to be. and sumone mentioned that ps3 will be better, truth is 'it cnt be'. if you think about it all consoles are focusing more on online play, therefore all the components inside your xbox and ps2 are going to be closer to parts from a pc then your average old console. (example) - if you read the spec sheet for the xbox 360 theres dddr3 memory in them which isnt evan out for the pc and other things like that. xbox are mrcrosoft and microsoft are (a pc)

so if you get what im getting at xbox own the market, and will lways be one step infront, i pridict that xbox and ps2 in 4 years time maybe more will merge, and in 10 years time your games console and your pc will be the same thing, every thing will merge?

  • 05.22.2005 8:10 AM PDT

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Posted by: Drox
You have some "facts" wrong. Xbox 360 is and will be backwards compatible.


Yeah and here is a link telling you why the Xbox 360 is actually going to outperform the PS3.

  • 05.22.2005 9:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: a Grunt
The PS3 looks like a better buy so far. Plus Unreal is going to be on it.


Duh! Blue Ray discs > DVD discs

I only have xbox because of Halo and the controller but I can get a converter box for PS2.. Microsoft sucks otherwise. microsoft is cheap, and sucks

[Edited on 5/22/2005]

  • 05.22.2005 9:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: sHAdeX9003
360 will be a big hit if halo 3 comes out on it. a really really big hit, since halo 2 outbeat the sells for the first halo, just think how man would want halo 3????


Not many would want Halo 3. The only reason why Halo2 sold more was because buyers were over-optimistic about it. It did not live up to its hype.

  • 05.22.2005 10:08 AM PDT
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MJOLNIR MARK V - Not many would want Halo 3. The only reason why Halo2 sold more was because buyers were over-optimistic about it. It did not live up to its hype.

oh yer know it all, i think the 8.4 million people world wide (according to microsoft) would disagree

  • 05.22.2005 2:17 PM PDT
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the xbox 360 has three 3.2ghz powered cores in it, that like the graphical equivalant oh 3 shi7 hot pc's

  • 05.22.2005 2:20 PM PDT

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the xbox 360 has three 3.2ghz powered cores in it, that like the graphical equivalant oh 3 shi7 hot pc's


Actually each one of those power cores is Dual, which means it’s like having 6 processors.


And i don't care if it "didnt live up to hype", i love playing it on live, It is afterall the most played live game. I will most defenetly get Halo 3. Xbox 360 will be so much better than ps3 because of XNA and the focus on software and not just hardware. Remember microsoft made directx so they know what they are doing. So not only is it more powerful than ps3 hardware wise it has the software too. And you are an idiot for saying Xbox 360 wont be BC.

[Edited on 5/23/2005]

  • 05.23.2005 2:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: sHAdeX9003
360 will be a big hit if halo 3 comes out on it. a really really big hit, since halo 2 outbeat the sells for the first halo, just think how man would want halo 3????


It only outselled because Halo 1 was good, if people knew that what they were getting is NOTHING like the e3 demo, it would have never beat sales

  • 05.23.2005 7:26 AM PDT

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