I run this BC stuff into the ground all the time (ask any blogger, journo, or PR guy that will even open my e-mails, thanks N'Gai!) but it's about that time again. One of the links I've gotten used to checking every few days can be found here. Every quarter MS was updating the list at the link, and it generally made news each time, but here we are with no update in about 5 months. Who cares? Well as someone who never trades anything in (and conversely never buys anything new either), I've still got a number of games I'm looking forward to playing again.

I would have thought that when Xbox Originals hit, Microsoft would have come out with a definative statement on what the future of disc based backwards compat would be. Would we still get updates? Would we see this list put in concrete, but then only expect that these games were capable of play on Originals? Or finally could we expect future downlaodable titles on Live that would increase this total number of Xbox prime games? Potentially I could still play a lot of cool games on system link like Project Snowblind and Timesplitters 2. I can play all of my PS2 games on my triple, why not xbox games on the 360?

So in conclusion, I think all we need to see is something final on the issue. With as many people making statements back and forth on the issue over the last couple of years I think that is reasonable.