3 Important Questions

[ShadowX]

I am planning on selling my xbox in order to get the extra $100 to buy the $400 supposedly backwards compatable (for my leftover games for xbox) 360. First I need to know.

1. If I do this, can I play an Xbox 1 game on 360's live service? Such as Halo 2? If so, will this work with Xbox 1's playing people in Halo 2 using 360's?

2. Is the hard drive confirmed to be fully backwards compatable yet? If it won't play "some" of my games, it isn't worth selling my Xbox then.

3. On XBL currently, I am Shadow417, why the numbers? ShadowX was taken, though, he seems to be really inactive. Is there anyway to get ShadowX as a Gamertag foe 360?

[VictoryOverWar]

1. If I do this, can I play an Xbox 1 game on 360's live service? Such as Halo 2? If so, will this work with Xbox 1's playing people in Halo 2 using 360's?
-you will be able to play Halo2 on xbox360 and will be able to play against people using xbox1.

2. Is the hard drive confirmed to be fully backwards compatable yet? If it won't play "some" of my games, it isn't worth selling my Xbox then.
-no officical word on the games that will be availible for backwards combatble games. However it was stated the more popular games would be but not all xbox1 titles

3. On XBL currently, I am Shadow417, why the numbers? ShadowX was taken, though, he seems to be really inactive. Is there anyway to get ShadowX as a Gamertag foe 360?
-XBL is not changing its essentially the same service so no you will not be able to take the already taken gamer tag.


all in all do it anyway forget your xbox and move on.

[daniel.isaac.h]

VictoryOverWar is right on the money... I heard that you will be able to download emulation (backwards compatibility) patches via XBL Silver for free in the future.

[Boon72]

yeah u will be able to download emulation patches as said above for older games when MS release them.

xbox & xbox 360's will share the 1 live account so u can play online / dl content on both consoles, while only paying for xbl once.

[Romper Stomper]

I don't know if I want to sell my xbox and a bunch of my games to get money for the 360? My brother and I will be fighting over who gets to play the 360, but if I kept the xbox we could both play halo 2 on live or something.

[VictoryOverWar]

for you to both be able to play you would need to have 2 live accounts aswell as a splitter on your modem

[Iron Orta]

If u can i would say to keep ur xbox. I no ill be keeping mine :)

[xxxHedpexxx]

I'm giving my xbox to my sister. I'm only going to keep a few games for my xbox to play on the 360. I already sold my PSP. It was crap anyways. No really good games and not much in the future.

[three-sixty]

I don't know if I want to sell my xbox and a bunch of my games to get money for the 360? My brother and I will be fighting over who gets to play the 360, but if I kept the xbox we could both play halo 2 on live or something.
You would also need a 2nd halo2 game

[Romper Stomper]

Yeah obviously, why would I need a splitter on my modem when I have a router? I might sell some of my games though since most of them suck.

[Dragonx420]

i am going to keep my xbox and then i am going to have the 360 on top of that so i can have a lot more xboxs if you know what i mean.....nah im just kidding thtas awsome that we r going to be able to play halo 2 on the 360 till halo 3 comes out

[xpitbull]

I sold my xbox and some games, also some other systems, from all that i got 200 bucks

[Muthas]

sold my xbox too, as no1 wants is after launch xbox 360

[Nomino]

A great point made in this thread. It's fair to say that most people who are buying an XBox 360 at launch already have an XBox. A large proportion of people moaned about the extra $100 needed for the HDD and backwards compatibility. The simple answer, sell your XBox and you are sorted.

The ironic thing is, how much do people really, and I mean *really* take advantage of backwards compatibility. I had a PSOne, and have a PS2. I have a huge pile of PSOne games, and the PS2 can play them all. I have played a grand total of ONE in the PS2, just to see if it worked. Backwards compatibilty is just a selling feature that people want because they think they need it. The reality is, hardly anybody uses it.

As for Shadow having numbers, just pick a more exclusive gamertag!

[Tech9mm]

well said Nomino

[Romper Stomper]

I want to sell my xbox and some old games, but where can I sell it to? I'm pretty sure EB won't take it..?

[Muthas]

I think you can do like 4 things:

1: Ask your friends and family if they wanna buy a cheap game from you.

2: Here in the Netherlands you can sell your games to a local game store, maybe you can too.

3: On a xbox forum you can make a thread with all your games for sale.

or 4: you go to a selling site and sell your games there.

Good luck with selling, i did all of this too :)

[G4everX]

A great point made in this thread. It's fair to say that most people who are buying an XBox 360 at launch already have an XBox. A large proportion of people moaned about the extra $100 needed for the HDD and backwards compatibility. The simple answer, sell your XBox and you are sorted.

The ironic thing is, how much do people really, and I mean *really* take advantage of backwards compatibility. I had a PSOne, and have a PS2. I have a huge pile of PSOne games, and the PS2 can play them all. I have played a grand total of ONE in the PS2, just to see if it worked. Backwards compatibilty is just a selling feature that people want because they think they need it. The reality is, hardly anybody uses it.

As for Shadow having numbers, just pick a more exclusive gamertag!

Actually, sence the Xbox has live, it's a good feture. Sence the backward compatibility will probably allow for live play, it may come in handy on the Xbox 360. Every so often, some one may say "hey, want to play Splinter Cell 3, or Halo 2?"

I've played about 20 PS1 games on my PS2 though. Then again, I'm a RPG gamer, and love to replay the best of the best (mainly when new games arn't coming out).

I'm trying to say that the Xbox 360's ability to play xbox 1 games will do more for you then the PS2's. Also, that I do see your point, most people havn't used the PS2 backwards abilities.

On topic

ShadowX..
Go ahead and sell your X-box, the 360 will end up playing 90%-all of you xbox games in due time.

Also, you may be able to get the name ShadowX. If it's been cancelled by the user, and been inactive for a couple months. You may be able to pick that tag up. Just try to register it.

[Romper Stomper]

I'm not big into the whole internet selling thing..

[ProjectDarkfire]

i'm selling my N64 crap...its about time too...

[joan macy]

im keeping my xbox because of all the saved game and downloads. :-)

[Diamond]

yeah u will be able to download emulation patches as said above for older games when MS release them.

xbox & xbox 360's will share the 1 live account so u can play online / dl content on both consoles, while only paying for xbl once.

Yeah, most likely if any titles you have don't have the emulation software, they probably will in the future. I imagine they wouldn't do EVERY xbox title. That would be too much. There's a few they could skip out on. Mostly the failure titles that nobody likes. Like 'Unreal 2: The Awakening' that game was just plain crap. I was so disappointed when I got it. I got it for free and still felt ripped off, that's how bad it sucked I tell you. But if they neglect that title or others that sucked even worse, I won't miss them. Who wants to play old crappy games anyways.

Just keep the good ones IMO. Don't overrate the crap games just because they're falling out of the next gen compatibility. Some games deserve to die.

[Agent Smith]

My XBOX drive is really fickle, but I am keeping my XBOX 180 until I can make sure all my old games run on the 360. I have been traveling a lot in the last year and have a stack of about 6 games from last Christmas and my birthday to play. Not to mention the 3 I had in progress before last Christmas. I really got to play some more....I hope they announce which games will work soon. If they got out a list, I could check my games over and maybe sell earlier. More money for 360 games!