Xbox 360 backward compatibility lacking in Japan

It ended up being 478 by the time the last compatibility update was added in late 2007. Sadly, we never got the Otogi games, OddWorld Stranger's Wrath, or several other gems.

well, 200 + for us now isn't impressing me, i expected alot more myself, and if i lived in japan i would be mucho disapointed ! how hard cam it be to d/l an emulator program to the 360 ?

Lets just gets some more backwards games for north america.

they might as well count that as 5 games, cuz the japanese don't play fps.

Umm.. hey chrisdojo, the japanese are owning MS not the other way around. If there was a huge demand for Xboxes in japan and they did this then yes, what you said would be true, but since there isn't it is the other way around. Sigh... so many people claim ownage without understanding what it means...

LOL they have been pwn3t by m$

I agree with the first poster. The XBOX did so badly in Japan I wouldn't waste a dime in retrofitting the 360. Of course, I wouldn't have spent any money on making the North American XBOX 360 backwards compatible either.

It's the microSOFT - what do you expect from it :lol: Like any other company they think: ,,How to save as much money as we can?"

Hmmm.... if Microsoft really wants to gain more Japanese consumers, then this is NOT a step in the right direction........... or maybe that's just me *shrugs*

Just throwing away the first XBox? Must be the same thing they've done with every Nintendo console ever! People seem so quick to forget that outside of the PS2 and some GameBoy's backwards compatibility is a relatively new idea. Consoles have gone on without it for years I don't think Japanese gamers will be that disappointed or surprised.

That's all fine and dandy... But why the HELL (in America) is Kabuki Warriors backwards-compatible, but not Unreal Championship 2?!

wiafs02 has a point, they should put games that are made by Japanese developers.

they should atleast add DOA 3 & DOA:U

well....duh, there were oly like 2 people in japan that has an xbox, it doesnt make sense to give a lot of money to make the system backwards compatible for 2 people (yes i know i exaggerated the number)