Awesome news, this should be good enough for Midway to pay off their debts and hopefully learn from this ordeal and focus on quality over quantity.
Sony and Nintendo have a similar service set up, its practically common knowledge a dispute with Nvidia the chipset maker caused the early demise of the Original Xbox.
Yea but it's better to sell a million copies at the original price then sell a million at a reduced price.
These aren't remakes though, they are the same game with new controls and some "graphical enhancements" which may be upscailing.
Did you read the story? This isn't official, infact it's just the site speculating.
Are you sure they are adding native 16:9 support or just letting the Wii upscale the thing?
Microsoft was smart by making 16:9 mandatory a few months after the launch of the original Xbox, I think Sony may have done this later on as well.
@ NaiNaiNai: Tim Schafer and Alex Seropian say Hi, their are probably more but those are two of the more renowned examples.
Find a patch? For what!
The entire update is one file, even if you only want to play lets say Halo: CE on your Xbox 360 it will download what ever build is available on the server allowing you to play all titles on the bc list.
If you don't have XBL you just download the update from Microsoft's site or get one from a OXM disc and your good to go. You don't need to find a patch like you claim.
They tried most of that in Angel of Darkness but Eidos went all greedy on Core Design and shipped it in Alpha in turn blaming the faults on Core Design and shutting them down.
It looks like your doing something wrong, you don't need to buy a Xbox Originals title to play your disc based version of said Original Xbox title. Just pop the disc in and you might be prompted for a update, if the disc is apart of the list of bc titles then it will work just fine.
If anything Xbox Originals will convince Microsoft to continue patching original Xbox titles since they now have a new source of revenue that if the next Xbox is backwards compatible via hardware wi...
Again going back to the point, if you hate the used games market like many gamers do, are you really willing to buy a used game or buy the game from a service that will allow you to give the original developers of the game a cut?
Both those games are great but sold like crap, Sega should have pushed those instead of "Soccer Slam" which albeit was good but the others would have been more widely accepted.
Sega PS3 and Xbox 360 support is a joke in comparison to the Wii, why all those classic franchises were released on such a console I still do not know.
DOND has Big Head mode??
Half the original FASA team is still at Microsoft anyway so they can come back if they wanted to, not to mention ex team members not employed at Microsoft will always have the option to return to a apply at FASA again if it were reopened.
If Microsoft was the only one laying people off then this article might have some credibility to it.
How many developers does Sony actually pay, meaning how many work for Sony.
For instance, Rare has over 200 employees and I'm sure many other big name studios under the MGS brand have at least 100.
Just to put it into perspective, Rare has over 200 developers working for them, Microsoft may not have the studios but they definitely have the developers, these developers can then be split into teams and work on different projects.
Although I would have preferred having the studios though instead of cramming everyone into 3 studios, even if FASA Studio only had 30 developers, that would be good enough.
But Microsoft still owns the ip so they can bring the stud...
The media doesn't decide the recession, Shane Kim didn't just wake up one morning and say "That Githleman really pisses me off, shut down his studio pronto!". Alot of decision making goes into a decision like that, everyone from analysts to accountants looked at Microsoft's market condition and speculated what their next move should be.
Daver: Do the math, also include TNA Impact and the causal line up Midway released in Q4 which did extremely well.