Many game publications claimed the Xbox 360 won’t be backward compatible with the Xbox. Is that true?
I’ve been waiting for an Xbox 360 for more than half a year now. One of the big pluses was the backwards compatibility with my existing Xbox games. That was in all the gaming magazines that I buy occasionally. The reality is much different. Only 13 percent of my games are compatible, which makes a mockery of the word “compatible.” I found out the terrible truth in very unsatisfactory manner. I put in an old game and got an error message, telling me that I need to go to the Xbox site. I hadn’t hooked up wireless to the Xbox 360 yet, so I went online using my computer. After much digging, I found this page, which required me to register just to read it. Joy. After accessing it, I found out I can download some software to a CD to upgrade the Xbox. Alternatively, if I put an old game into the Xbox 360, it will automatically update itself to play it. OK, I dig out an old Ethernet adapter and got wireless going on the Xbox 360. Unlike with my old Xbox, I actually get into Xbox Live without a
