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But did you ever use it? Apparently many did not, but I knew a few people who play Halo 2 on Xbox 360.
think it is a good idea though, and developers really have stopped producing for Xbox anyway!
At the end of the GDC blogger's breakfast yesterday morning, Chris Satchell dropped this bomb that not many people seem to have picked up on. He said, regarding Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility:
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At some point we're going to focus less on it. When you get to the end of this year there will be a reduced focus on backwards compatibility. There are so many 360 games out there. I don't know if it's important anymore.
So depending on how many Backward Compat. updates (we counted two in 2006) your Xbox game may not quite make it to Xbox 360, which means you're going to have to keep that big black box around indefinitely.
I'm not saying it's a good thing as far as we (the people playing the 360s) are concerned, but I could see Microsoft doing this sooner or later. It does make business sense, as the time taken looking backwards (making games compatible) could be spent on other things, which push the 360 forward.