See you in 3 years when the whole team is cut. You know, for not making any money.
IDK, MS really went all the way with backwards compatibility. They literally built emulators for the 360 and OG Xbox in order to let people play old games using old disks they already owned.
I’d be shocked if they didn’t stay committed to this.
I hope I’m wrong but companies are about cutting good ideas for short term gains.
The Series S doesn’t have a disk drive.
The rumored Series X refresh doesn’t have a disk drive.
It’d be hard for Microsoft to remain committed to game preservation in that way without them.
To me, this sounds more like they’re looking at Nintendo’s virtual store playbook and wondering how many times they can sell the same games to their customer base.
Series X refresh isn’t a rumor, and it doesn’t have a disk drive. Microsoft also laid off their physical media dept entirely.
They could stand to make a bunch of money reselling old games with 4k, vrr, HDR, and calling it remastered.
They could which sounds like this team or they can make do the GTA route and make a masterpiece again.
irony is they’re closing the 360 online store this year
It was still running?!
Nintendo wondering if she’s stupid
Nintendo: “Why do they not simply charge a monthly subscription to access 40-year-old games people have already bought three times?”
Nintendo probably thinks the team will be dedicated to stopping emulation. Games must be preserved in their original platforms after all /s.
Yuzu! Fuck nintendo
Should…should we tell Squizzy?
Great thing about the internet, nothing is really gone
Oh God, there are 40 year old video games
I nearly said “20” but then realized I’m almost twice that old myself and the NES is a couple years older than me. Friggin’ millennials. We’re ruining the aging industry too.
Pong is over 50. For that matter, Tennis for Two is coming up on 70.
Consumer friendly products? What is going on?
They are loosing to Sony so they have to find new ways of competing for business. You know, how it’s supposed to work.
Wish it worked that way more often.
You know what, this makes me so happy that I’ll give ‘em that:
“Good job capitalism!”
Now I got to go wash my fingers for typing that.
But just remember that during the 360/PS3 era when MS were in the lead, it was Sony trying to by all consumer friendly, advocating online cross play and having free online service.
MS weren’t interested then.
[x] Doubt
I am wondering if her father is called James.
Forward compatibility? I get backward compatibility, but FORWARD compatibility?
I think that just means not making any crazy technological decisions that will likely make games incompatible on future hardware. A great example was the PS3’s cell processor. It was excellent tech when used properly, but absolutley not “forward compatible”
In fairness here, you can’t predict the future.
Cell was just PowerPC as was the Xbox 360’s Xenon chip. PowerPC is all but dead now, but the same thing could happen to x86 or ARM in the future. No king rules forever.
I suppose, but in my mind, unless an absolutely revolutionary technology takes the world by storm, the industry wouldn’t just up and abandon x86 and ARM unless compatibility was decent. We’re talking ablut a world where businesses still use Windows XP because their software won’t work on later versions.
Ensuring that future titles have a preservation plan as part of the development?
Think of all the old games that are no longer playable because the master servers are no longer online.
I mean Computers basically kind of have it
I should be able to play any games that releases in the next 5 years on my current set up
Right? Like isn’t that a joke in Homestar
It’s future backward compatibility.
/r/shittytu… Okay, why isn’t there a Lemmy version of Shitty Tumblr GIFs?
