Where?

Show me a retailer for a new PS3 for $100 with a link. Not Amazon, not Walmart, not Target, not Best Buy. I looked at all those sites and retailers.

Walmart is currently $219. Which you can almost get an Xbox One for that.

I did check it out. Doesn't look too bad at all. I'm sure its a decent price as well. Thanks.

How so?

(1/3) Calm down buddy. I admit that I was ignorant about how the “ports” work. They run on an emulator and not Windows 10 native so they are more difficult to bring to the XBO. Besides that, do I not have a point? That the majority of backwards compatible games being released are old Arcade games? Most of which nobody I know has jumped up and down with joy to have? Go look at the list yourself if you don’t believe me (~171 Arcade, ~60 “Games On Demand”).

Moving on. Yes they need publisher consent, you are correct. But that shouldn't be our responsibility to obtain. Why should it be on our shoulders to email publishers? It’s Microsoft’s job to gauge interest. They wouldn’t have bothered with backwards compatibility if their business plan was to rely on the consumers to contact publishers in their stead. They know this and it is not something they expect of us. Instead they have a thread on their forums that most owners don’t know it exists (btw ME2+3 are in the top ten fyi).What they should have done is provided an engaging, easy to locate tool to give XBO owners the opportunity to vote once a week from a selection, or perhaps host a webpage that links from the XBO dashboard where the Live community can vote and discuss.

I’m sorry to burst your fanboy bubble, but what Microsoft is doing is porting the easiest games they can so they can pad the list and claim, “We have over X number of backwards compatible games”. They dangle a ho-hum, late-to-the-party, afterthought feature in front of XBO owners to help whoever bought their laggy Frankenstein, Windows 10 game console feel better about the $500 all-in-one brick they bought while trying desperately to justify the purchase for those who don’t yet own one so they can catch up with Sony.

(2/3) If I’m wrong about the padding and your theory about publisher consent is the biggest issue, tell me then why we don’t have more first party Microsoft Game Studios games like Crackdown? The only mentionable MSGS games on the list are Fable II, Gears (1-3), Viva Pinata, and Kameo. No Forza, only half the Halo games, no PGR, Lost Odyssey, Alan Wake, Ninja Gaiden, etc.

To speak further in regards to publisher consent, those publishers have priorities on their agenda that far outweigh giving away their old games for free, especially when they can charge for them on other systems like they do on PS4, PS Vita, Wii U, 3DS, and mobile. It’s even less of a priority when the development cost you speak of is factored in. Hell, I’ve bought way more “classic” games through the Vita alone than I own backwards compatible 360 games, and I own a lot of 360 games. The biggest issue is MS biting off more than they can chew to advertise a feature that the XBO was not designed to have in the first place so that they appear relevant by offering something unique compared to competitors (which it arguably isn’t given Nintendo’s Virtual Console, the PS1/PS2 Classics on PS4 and Vita, and even PlayStation Now).

Backwards compatibility was never a plan for the Xbox One. That’s a “durr” fact. They only decided to tackle it because they were losing a concerning amount of market share to the PS4 and mobile. It comes at a great cost to Microsoft, sure. It was even deemed impossible by the engineering team at one point. Am I glad it’s a free feature? Of course. Was I excited when it was announced? Hell yes. Are they doing a good job making the games work and fixing ones that don’t? Surprisingly so. Am I happy with how they’ve decided to proceed? Obviously not. After seeing what kind of games they’ve been focusing on over the last year my enthusiasm has dwindled.

(3/3) Like I said, hooray for games like Aegis Wing and Castle Crashers. If you’re happy then good for you. As for me… big whoop. Wake me up when games that mattered for the 360 start showing up. Give me Lost Odyssey, Lost Planet, Dead Rising, Forza, Crackdown, PGR, SFIV, ME2+3, any 360 exclusive JRPG, Bayonetta…

As for the comment above mine; Ubisoft has a literal butt load of games that are listed as backwards compatible. Konami and Capcom games are the biggest droughts right now. Talk about being “clueless”.

Don't be a douche. lol

they don't need to mention names. they simply would make formal statement, something like " we are trying to add new games, but the decision is ultimately up to the publishers to decide which games are added."

HOW HARD IS THAT?