I know it is just speculation for now, but how do you guys think the next gen xbox will be able to handle backwards compatibility.
Do you think it will be 100% backwards compatible, e.g. playing all games and supporting all DLC/arcade games etc.
I sure hope that i can use all my DLC for a next gen rock band game on the new system when it arrive.

 

They better. The 360 has a strong and large game library. And knowing how the 360 will probably not last very long to play 10 years later; they ought to have a new console to play the favourite games we used to play on our 360.
 
I heard that they will be using something like ATI; someone here on GB told me that it should be easier to make the console have backwards compatibility with older console games because it uses a similar processor. Problem with the original Xbox was that it used Nvidia or something so the backwards compatibility was out of question for the 360. Seeing how both the new Xbox and 360 uses ATI then we might be in luck.
 
Also gives Microsoft an excuse to drop all support for the 360 and the amount of warranties/repairs they had to cover.

Also with gamerscore and overall "gamer identity"  (avartars and so far). I recon they will continue that on the "xbox 720".

Absoutely, people are so invested in their gamerscore right now to the point where wiping the slate clean would be a huge mistake.

I'm more interested on what they do with gamerscore.  By the time a new system rolls around, I probably wont care about 360 games. Gotta stay current!

I think it will. The only reason the 360 backwords compatibility blows is because they didn't own the hardware from the original xbox.  This time around they do so will have no problem incorporating whatever needs to be done if they want to.

It would suck if the future 360 didn't have full backwards compatibility and it's not out of the realms of possibility that it could happen but if what Meteora said is true then it looks like a fully-backwards compatible Xbox 360 successor may be very likely. Also I think that Microsoft know that there's gonna be some very major backlash from the community if they don't transfer all Xbox LIVE accounts to the new system with gamerscore intact so I'm sure that's something we'll see as well.

Wow, I hadn't even thought of that stuff.  This console generation seems like it could go on forever and I wonder if new consoles are even being planned at this point.

I think it is out of the question for any console maker to avoid any form of backwards compatibility anymore. There is no reason why Live accounts, Game store and DLC would not be backwards compatible at all. As for physical games, like Gamer_152 said they own the hardware now and have a lot of leeway for a future console, a lot more than with the original Xbox!
 
Let's not forget the backlash Sony and M$ got when they announced partial **cough** crappy **cough** backwards compatibility on their current consoles. I doubt they'll try it again.

" They better. The 360 has a strong and large game library. And knowing how the 360 will probably not last very long to play 10 years later; they ought to have a new console to play the favourite games we used to play on our 360. I heard that they will be using something like ATI; someone here on GB told me that it should be easier to make the console have backwards compatibility with older console games because it uses a similar processor. Problem with the original Xbox was that it used Nvidia or something so the backwards compatibility was out of question for the 360. Seeing how both the new Xbox and 360 uses ATI then we might be in luck.  Also gives Microsoft an excuse to drop all support for the 360 and the amount of warranties/repairs they had to cover. "

I also hope that MS will have BC on their next X-Box console (At least for 360 games, if not original X-Box games as well). And make it hardware emulated based, since it's way better than software emulation.

Depends on the timing, but if it's realeased in the next 3 years, they fucking need 100% backwards compatibility and gamerscores that carry over

I think it would be suicide for Microsoft's reputation in the gaming market if they did not have some sort of computability with their current gen games and data. However, I'm not so certain carrying over gamerscore is the best idea. Starting a new slate for the next gen's products may actually attract more people than it turns away. Everyone is familiar with the concept now, so putting everyone on even grounds again could entice a fresh boost of competitiveness in the launch window. I'm sure getting a leg up on the competition launch-wise will be a major strategy for MS again.
 
As far as games and DLC goes... I think MS will try to do as much BC as possible. The hardware differences complicated things for the Xbox 360 from Xbox. Given the apparent focus for more digital distribution, I think they will try to have every downloadable full game and arcade title to date (- indies) as available on their next console in a separate section of the marketplace. Any game supported as backwards compatible MUST have supported DLC. Something like Rock Band is a special case that would really come down to what the developers can do and are willing to do(hopefully with cooperation and assistance from MS). I'm pretty much just talking out of my ass with speculation here, but you asked what we think.

i hope they do back ward compaibitly as i would be mad. i just have a feeling that DLC won't be possible just because. it would be weird if they didn't though. 
 
i hope that next generation all the companies do it. sony made the mistake of not doing that. the older ones could but not the newer ones. i have some ps2 games that i wish i could play but i have a broken ps2 and i don't feel like paying for a new one/ repair.

It better. It would be even better if it played Xbox games as well, even if that's very doubtful. But then again, we don't know anything about the next Xbox, so anything is possible I guess.

" I think it would be suicide for Microsoft's reputation in the gaming market if they did not have some sort of computability with their current gen games and data. However, I'm not so certain carrying over gamerscore is the best idea. Starting a new slate for the next gen's products may actually attract more people than it turns away. Everyone is familiar with the concept now, so putting everyone on even grounds again could entice a fresh boost of competitiveness in the launch window. I'm sure getting a leg up on the competition launch-wise will be a major strategy for MS again. 
 
As far as games and DLC goes... I think MS will try to do as much BC as possible. The hardware differences complicated things for the Xbox 360 from Xbox. Given the apparent focus for more digital distribution, I think they will try to have every downloadable full game and arcade title to date (- indies) as available on their next console in a separate section of the marketplace. Any game supported as backwards compatible MUST have supported DLC. Something like Rock Band is a special case that would really come down to what the developers can do and are willing to do (hopefully with cooperation and assistance from MS). I'm pretty much just talking out of my ass with speculation here, but you asked what we think. "

I reckon the Arcade will be able to work on the 360 and their next console on a multi platform kinda thing. 

They already said gamerscore would carry over.  I want everything to carry over.  Games, DLC, XBLA games, etc.  

Its basically a PC so I don't see why it wouldn't be BC. Your PC still plays older games when you upgrade the RAM and CPU.

Live Arcade games, certainly. DLC and backwards compatibility, I'm guessing  "probably," since, as mentioned, the Xbox 360's hardware so closely resembles basic PC hardware compared to the other consoles. Porting things over, depending on how the next Xbox's hardware goes, would be more simply like running an old PC game on a new computer. Emphasis on "depending," however, as if they use any sort of proprietary architecture, which is a possibility, that will break the ease of porting things over, which may require actual 360 hardware in the new console, which would mean an increase in expense, which, as the PS3 illustrated, is ill afforded in the highly competitive world of Video Game consoles.
 
I'm still guessing they'll make the effort, regardless. Maintaining backwards compatibility promotes the purchasing of newer hardware, and it would be in Microsoft's best interest to do so. Besides that, with the way they've been pushing full-game digital downloads, there's even more pressure on them to maintain working backwards compatibility, or else all of those downloadable games become obsolete in the fairly near future.

Its basically a PC so I don't see why it wouldn't be BC. Your PC still plays older games when you upgrade the RAM and CPU.

Microsoft wants to make some big changes to Xbox Live right now, but there are a lot of people still playing Halo 2 on their 360's that they cant change anything to their online structure. Or so i have been told.

" Microsoft wants to make some big changes to Xbox Live right now, but there are a lot of people still playing Halo 2 on their 360's that they cant change anything to their online structure. Or so i have been told. "

" The only reason the 360 backwords compatibility blows is because they didn't own the hardware from the original xbox."

" Wow, I hadn't even thought of that stuff.  This console generation seems like it could go on forever and I wonder if new consoles are even being planned at this point. "

" Its basically a PC so I don't see why it wouldn't be BC. Your PC still plays older games when you upgrade the RAM and CPU. "