Why Red Dead Redemption Isn't Playable on Xbox One...Yet

@cheers: Yeaaaa...no

@cheers: It's obvious MS is having licensing issues because backwards compatibility was done through a software patch, if Microsoft made BC a priority when designing the XBONE hardware ( like the Wii, Wii U, original PS3/ 360 etc. ) the problems they're having now wouldn't exist.

@illage2: But you still need to use the original wii controller to play them. what's the difference when you need use the same old controllers?

@illage2: Emulation vs. Hardware. That's your answer, Einstein.

@illage2: There are hundreds more coming as they've said. The only reason the WiiU can play their older games, is because they never change their architecture, and the games are pretty much the same in terms of IP's. We never see Nintendo pulling out a Battlefield or Call of Duty, so there is no need to change for 3rd Party Devs and Publishers.

@illage2: Nintendo owns the IPS they make. Where as MS has a lot more thirdparty games, which also have to be featured.

@4kgamer_lmxxx: how is it irrelevant if you think a sequel is coming? That makes it more important!

@wtf_666 Xenia and RPCS3.

#SOON

@wtf_666: LMFAO

@LPDisturbedHU: no one cares about zbox backwards compatibilty,thats the thing..xbox has no value being backwards compaitible..playstation is what their clamoring for

@LPDisturbedHU: youre approaching everything as a defensive one console owner. Some of us own both. Meaning we bought this one later for that perk and dont fool yourself into thinking that wasnt part of plan to draw back old crowd. When you make lots of promises that dont come true all at once, people are going to get upset. Firstly they flashed pub names instead of games as i begged for a game list, so you would just hope and buy. Is it their fault im a fool? No but it was intentioned that way. Secondly they wont update their list weelkly or monthly as we begged, instead opting for monday before surprise reveal. That was intentional too in case you didnt get that. If all wouldve went smoothly, we would have had title updates and game titles instead of guessing game, but it didnt and deception began to occur. Also if we are being big babies about program xbox was nice enough to offer....why were we told assassins creed was on board, bethesda on board to get one game from them. Not even their top voted. I want to direct your attention to xbox.com. They have a list of faqs on bc page. Look at answer for: how are titles selected? Very misleading. I also think there are a group of people out there that never trade in an old system and you belong in that group meaning this matters little to you, just fire up my 360 if i want to play. Some people use their old system to offset price of new system and gamestores are telling people to trade in old bc you can play all on new in november wo telling them any of fine print. Go outside. Smash your xbox 360. Retype what you just did. I dont want to get into a big console war here, but for my tastes xbox really has very little to offer in terms of new im looking forward to playing. So all this exclusive crap that offsets these other things for you, doesnt do the same for me on xbox. Bc once your 360 is smashed or sold like mine. You will be doing same thing and wishing for approval and xbox to hurry.

@Kusann: It's running emulation of a completely different processor family at half the clock speed whilst running software in place of hardware, whereas most emulation runs on machines which have higher clock speed, more memory and better overall data bandwidth than the original machines ... so yeah, that's a technological breakthrough and anyone who knows what they're talking about agrees...

Then there's you...

@Kusann: It technically is a technical feat on this piece of hardware (X1). But I like where you're going with this. The benchmark for new console hardware should be that it is powerful enough to emulate the old hardware going forward with ease.

@Kusann: Would you rather have had the console be $50 or $100 more, weigh more, and be bigger? You do realize people gave crap about the price already; they wouldn't have bought it. I hate it when people who known nothing about backwards compatibility talk about it.

@Kusann: To be fair, Nintendo doesn't really change its architecture between new hardware.

@uncle5555: It's not really giving away something for free if they've already had us buy it.

The service is free, not the games.

@SOul_FUNk: lol...I'm sure there have been many petitions....

@bandcelks00024: i sat around for a while wanting actual confirmation that denial had happened before i sent an email. I finally got an xbox rep to tell me that if my game was in top of votes and not coming thursday, i can assume theres been an issue w publisher authorization. I told him well you can say blame pubs all you want, if were not told which pubs to blame, we look like a$$e$ shooting emails around when we dont even know and he told me that.

@Daveof89: There are still plenty of games I never got to play last gen, and now with BC I can get around to many of them. For example, I just started up Just Cause 2 today just because I wanted to see what the game is like. The problem with your statement is, why would PC gamers ever go back to playing old games?

The answer really is, gamers will be playing the games they love, rather than just categorizing the situation as new vs. old games. If a game is good enough to a consumer, age shouldn't really be an issue. My girlfriend and I are going through the Gears series because she's interested. I've played each of the games at least 4 times, but it's great that I can go back and play them on the same box. Especially since I don't have my 360 up at school.

@Daveof89: I recently replayed Grandia 2 and OoT. While most people probably won't play older games, it's still a great thing to have as an option, and it frees up one slot under the TV. It's a free feature that will not cost us anything. So, if the console makers and publisher want to break their backs to bring it to us?

I say fine. Anything to make them remember who is the customer is a good thing.

I only wished this wasn't the same kind of inferior Software BC that they did on X360... Nothing beats hardware compatibility. But that does not make us pay for those old games in digital form ^^;.

@ethario: the top one is coming next month meaning they lied to us about title selection and what they would be doing for last six months. Also. Bethesda and take 2 were partners in program and we got one game. Same w assassins creed. We will get others as preorder bonuses for whatever their new games are me thinks. These all shouldve been ready or not announced as partners.