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It seems that Xbox2 ` Xenon ` Xbox Next ` Xbox360 will be backwards
compatible, so it will play Xbox games.
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=340720
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=44804
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"Xbox Live needs your help to improve our service! As a current Xbox Live
subscriber, your opinions are very important to us, and we need to know what
you think about some future Xbox Live offers. We invite you to complete a
brief survey and become one of the few lucky individuals who get to have
their voice heard. Only 200 users will be able to complete this survey, so
click on the link below right away!
Next we'd like to tell you more about Xbox Live.
Xbox Live is an online gaming service through your Xbox console system. Xbox
Live allows you to meet and compete against others worldwide anytime of day.
Use your headset to strategize with friends or talk trash to competitors,
set up a buddy list so you can see who is online no matter what game they
are playing, send them a game invite or put them on your friends list to set
up a game for later. It is easy to get into games quickly with the
Quickmatch feature and easy to find an opponent at your skill level with the
Optimatch feature. You can also download new items for specific games such
as new weapons, levels and maps.
As you may know, Xbox will soon come out with a next generation of video
game system (dubbed Xbox 2) that will be far superior in look and feel to
anything else on the market.
.. If you are already an Xbox Live subscriber through the original Xbox
system, you can continue to play against gamers who are on Live through Xbox
2 -- as long as they are playing a current generation Xbox game.
Xbox Live is an online gaming service that works across both the current
Xbox system and the future Xbox 2. You will be able to play online and
compete against others across both consoles. If you are playing an Xbox game
on Live you will be able to compete against people playing that same game on
Xbox 2.
.. If they are playing an Xbox 2 game on the Live service, you must own Xbox
2.
Xbox 2 offer available at your retail store
12 month subscription to Xbox LIVE, including the full game of Project
Gotham Racing 3 (exclusive game for Xbox 2 that is just released). Also
includes a headset to allow you to communicate with gamers online. All for
£59.99
Direct - The following option allows you to subscribe and renew directly
through the Xbox 2 console
12 month subscription to Xbox LIVE for £39.99
Xbox 2 offer available at your retail store
12 months subscription to Xbox LIVE, including a demo disc with game demos
for MechAssault 2, Xarcade, and Burnout 3. Also includes a headset to allow
you to communicate with gamers online. All for £44.99
Xbox 2 offer available at your retail store
3 month subscription to Xbox LIVE, including the full game of Project Gotham
Racing 3 (exclusive game for Xbox 2 that is just released). Also includes a
headset to allow you to communicate with gamers online. All for £49.99 "
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22839
Xbox 360 to be backwards compatible
It's a-Live
By Wil Harris: Wednesday 27 April 2005, 10:17
A QUESTIONNAIRE being taken online by Xbox Live users appears to give the
final confirmation that Xbox 360 will be backwards compatible - at least, if
you buy it with the optional hard drive.
The questionnaire deals with Xbox Live and says subscribers through the
original Xbox will be able to play against gamers on Xbox 2 -- as long as
they are playing a current generation Xbox game.
"Xbox Live is an online gaming service that works across both the current
Xbox system and the future Xbox 2. You will be able to play online and
compete against others across both consoles. If you are playing an Xbox game
on Live you will be able to compete against people playing that same game on
Xbox 2".
So XBox games will run on "XBox 2".
The hard drive comes in because the original Xbox had one and the games are
written to use one.
INQUIRER reader, Epobirs suggests that the hard drive could be used to house
an optimisation library of Xbox 360 native binaries to run the
first-generation games, thus increasing performance.
This sounds like a pretty good idea to us, and one that has had some use
previously, with FX!32 on the DEC Alpha, utilising translations of code it
produced previously to optimise the next time an application ran.
It is unlikely that Xbox games running on the Xbox 360 will look any better,
although it's possible that they could be anti-aliased using spare graphics
power. "
compatible, so it will play Xbox games.
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=340720
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=44804
________________________________________________________________________________
"Xbox Live needs your help to improve our service! As a current Xbox Live
subscriber, your opinions are very important to us, and we need to know what
you think about some future Xbox Live offers. We invite you to complete a
brief survey and become one of the few lucky individuals who get to have
their voice heard. Only 200 users will be able to complete this survey, so
click on the link below right away!
Next we'd like to tell you more about Xbox Live.
Xbox Live is an online gaming service through your Xbox console system. Xbox
Live allows you to meet and compete against others worldwide anytime of day.
Use your headset to strategize with friends or talk trash to competitors,
set up a buddy list so you can see who is online no matter what game they
are playing, send them a game invite or put them on your friends list to set
up a game for later. It is easy to get into games quickly with the
Quickmatch feature and easy to find an opponent at your skill level with the
Optimatch feature. You can also download new items for specific games such
as new weapons, levels and maps.
As you may know, Xbox will soon come out with a next generation of video
game system (dubbed Xbox 2) that will be far superior in look and feel to
anything else on the market.
.. If you are already an Xbox Live subscriber through the original Xbox
system, you can continue to play against gamers who are on Live through Xbox
2 -- as long as they are playing a current generation Xbox game.
Xbox Live is an online gaming service that works across both the current
Xbox system and the future Xbox 2. You will be able to play online and
compete against others across both consoles. If you are playing an Xbox game
on Live you will be able to compete against people playing that same game on
Xbox 2.
.. If they are playing an Xbox 2 game on the Live service, you must own Xbox
2.
Xbox 2 offer available at your retail store
12 month subscription to Xbox LIVE, including the full game of Project
Gotham Racing 3 (exclusive game for Xbox 2 that is just released). Also
includes a headset to allow you to communicate with gamers online. All for
£59.99
Direct - The following option allows you to subscribe and renew directly
through the Xbox 2 console
12 month subscription to Xbox LIVE for £39.99
Xbox 2 offer available at your retail store
12 months subscription to Xbox LIVE, including a demo disc with game demos
for MechAssault 2, Xarcade, and Burnout 3. Also includes a headset to allow
you to communicate with gamers online. All for £44.99
Xbox 2 offer available at your retail store
3 month subscription to Xbox LIVE, including the full game of Project Gotham
Racing 3 (exclusive game for Xbox 2 that is just released). Also includes a
headset to allow you to communicate with gamers online. All for £49.99 "
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22839
Xbox 360 to be backwards compatible
It's a-Live
By Wil Harris: Wednesday 27 April 2005, 10:17
A QUESTIONNAIRE being taken online by Xbox Live users appears to give the
final confirmation that Xbox 360 will be backwards compatible - at least, if
you buy it with the optional hard drive.
The questionnaire deals with Xbox Live and says subscribers through the
original Xbox will be able to play against gamers on Xbox 2 -- as long as
they are playing a current generation Xbox game.
"Xbox Live is an online gaming service that works across both the current
Xbox system and the future Xbox 2. You will be able to play online and
compete against others across both consoles. If you are playing an Xbox game
on Live you will be able to compete against people playing that same game on
Xbox 2".
So XBox games will run on "XBox 2".
The hard drive comes in because the original Xbox had one and the games are
written to use one.
INQUIRER reader, Epobirs suggests that the hard drive could be used to house
an optimisation library of Xbox 360 native binaries to run the
first-generation games, thus increasing performance.
This sounds like a pretty good idea to us, and one that has had some use
previously, with FX!32 on the DEC Alpha, utilising translations of code it
produced previously to optimise the next time an application ran.
It is unlikely that Xbox games running on the Xbox 360 will look any better,
although it's possible that they could be anti-aliased using spare graphics
power. "