Xbox Originals, the overpriced, but extremely useful (if you have a large enough hard drive) service that allows original Xbox titles to be downloaded and played on an Xbox 360, is on life support. As reported by IGN, Microsoft has "finished its portfolio" of games, so to speak.
After one additional unannounced Xbox game becomes an Original, the service will not be updated further. Perhaps this has to do with the newly-announced "Games on Demand" service, which provides full retail Xbox 360 titles for download?
Or maybe they simply ran out of quick and easy ports, and all that's left are games that require too much effort to be worth investing in? Either way, there are a countless number of great Xbox titles that aren't A) backward compatible and B) available as an Original. For this, we are sad.
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11:00 AM on 06.03.2009
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Or if you want to sell them at $15 = Add achievements and Xbox Live support. Do a true port, not just using the emulation.
Look, realistically, this was a pretty good idea that was fucked from the runway. Too pricey, and titles nobody wants to pay fifteen bucks for (Zapper? Really, Microsoft?)
But still this is sad, especially considering everything but the wii is suffering from backwards compatability issues in some form or another.
Plus there was only so many good xbox games. Most of them are on the system with back-compat anyway.
There's an option in the 360's system settings to allow you to continue downloading after the 360 is turned off.
Not really a great loss, I just hope what replaces it will be better
man that suck
Then there's the fact that a fair chunk of them can be found for much cheaper at a store.
But really, Xbox Originals was a bad idea to begin with, as has been Microsoft's entire stance on backwards compatibility. The original Xbox had a lot of decent games and more don't work on the 360 than do. It's really very annoying, I've still got my Xbox plugged in thanks tot he 360's limited compatibility.
I still wanted the other two Prince of Persia games and The Warriors. Should the Xbox 720 come out, I can't be sure I will be able to play my Psychonauts on that either can I?