Kikizo spoke with Peter Moore recently on the issue of Xbox 360 and backwards compatibility. Moore had some interesting things to say:
“Nobody is concerned anymore about backwards compatibility. We under promised and over delivered on that. It’s a very complicated thing… very complex work. I’m just stunned that we have hundreds of games that are backwards compatible. […] More are coming, but at some point, you just go, there’s enough, let’s move on, or people aren’t as worried about a game being backwards compatible – and I like to think we’ve upheld our end of the bargain in making at least two or maybe three hundred games backwards compat.”
Under promised and over delivered would we? Look, backwards compatibility isn’t really important to me—I would have been fine without it—but that statement is just asinine. I like Peter Moore—he helmed the launch of my beloved Dreamcast—but give me a break. A good 3/4 of the Xbox games I own are not backwards compatible. I’d say “over delivered” is a bit of a stretch.
As Xboxic points out, this quote may signal the coming end of backwards compatibility altogether. They’d better get Capcom Classics and Street Fighter Anniversary Collection on that list, or I will write them a nasty email so fast. Oh yes, I will.
—via Xboxic