HolyHalfDead said:FireDrake007 said:I don't know about that. Xbox CEO Spencer promised to keep on supporting and preserving their older Xbox catalog so what you are saying goes against that particularly those games that were never made back compatible and only accessible on the Xbox 360 which they still have sales for occasionally for some games.
Then clearly nobody at Microsoft was listening to Phil when support for all Windows Phone Xbox games was dropped earlier this year. Same goes for the backward compatibility team, who stopped working on preserving games. And the GwG team who aren’t even repeating older Xbox games after next month.
The best we can hope for is they roll out an update for the Xbox 360 console that enables it to connect to the Xbox One store, and they make all the Xbox 360 store content available on the Xbox One store. But that is a significant piece of work for a console they haven’t sold in 6 years.
I’m sure they are monitoring non-BC game purchases, and once it falls below a threshold (say 10,000 games per year) then they will announce the closure. A years notice would be nice!
The Windows Phone didn't sell well and was discontinued relatively quickly. I don't think there were games made exclusively for that platform that would be affected when they decided to stop supporting it. That is not the case with the Xbox 360.
MS wanted to continue the BC program. Spencer mentioned that there were technical, legal and licensing reasons why they couldn't add anymore games to the program and then called on the industry to do a better job of preserving older games.
MS and Sony have very different philosophies. MS as a long time Windows PC publisher is very much aware of the importance of preserving older games for future gamers to enjoy. They have even tried to keep servers for their first party Xbox 360 games open as much as possible.
Sony's console philosophy is very different. To them older consoles are just an economic drag they prefer to get rid off as soon as they can. They even tried closing the PS3 store early this year until negative media and fan feedback forced them to postpone that decision. They also close servers for their older console first party games faster than Ubisoft and other third party publishers have in some instances before the current generation is even finished(e.g. Driveclub).
The big difference is that the head of Xbox is a gamer himself who appreciates the importance of preserving their legacy games that he once played. Sony on the other hand is run by business executives who make their decisions based on short term profitability.