Category: Xbox 360 to One BC

The sales for this week can be found at this address here.  Normally I would list them out for the 360 that are backwards compatible to the Xbox One but the problem is there are none (that we know of) that are backwards compatible.  Heck, I mean I am not even sure any of them fit into the “Perhaps this title will end up as a backwards compatible title”.  The two Darksiders games are there, the first one has the best chance of BC since the second one already has a Xbox One port…so $1.99 might be worth your gamble.  The only other one I’m interested in from a 360 point of view is the Destroy All Humans game.  It’s only $4, hard to find in disc form, but according to the BC vote forums, only about 1400 votes.  Hardly, a gimme.

Oh by the way, remember kids…CastleStorm is a backwards compatible game, and it went free (if you have Gold) as of today for the next two weeks.  That’s all I got, until next time.

Xbox Live Games with Gold for December 2015 was announced today, and its a pretty good one with three Xbox 360 titles to add to the mix.  Castlestorm and Operation Flashpoint were already announced to be Backwards compatible, but Sacred 3 is a new announcement and welcome addition to the catalog.  Also for those who were wishing for Thief to become backwards compatible, well you can simply download the Xbox One version for free from December 16th to January 15th instead.  Enjoy!

* The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing ($14.99 ERP): Available from December 1-31 on Xbox One

* Thief ($29.99 ERP): Available from December 16-January 15 on Xbox One

* CastleStorm ($9.99 ERP): Available from December 1-15 on Xbox 360

* Sacred 3 ($19.99 ERP): Available from December 16-31 on Xbox 360

* Bonus: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising ($9.99 ERP): Available from December 16-31 on Xbox 360

Microsoft decided to post their deals for Black Friday a little early for Gold members, today in fact.  These deals don’t go live until the 24th for non-gold members, but I figured I would go ahead and get a jump and list these deals out for the Gold folks such as myself.

Edit: Updated with the sales from November 24th, and not just early Black Friday.

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Welcome to the 18th and most likely final iteration of Backwards Compatibility Voting.  I know, I know, I said final.  Don’t be sad. It’s just the natural order of things.  After four months, it’s time to tabulate, evaluate and then move on.  There will still be a weekly column probably, but there is no sense (with Microsoft closing out ideas on their site now) to keep going in the same direction.  Oh and we have a new #1 weekly.  Now that’s the way to close it out!

If you would like a copy of the file that these votes are stored in, please click here: Backwards-votes

Continue reading “11/20 Update on Backwards Compatibility Voting” →

I’m not sure if I’m going to do this on a weekly basis, but it might be worth doing going forward.  Basically, this will list all of the BC confirmed titles on sale that week digitally from Xbox Live Gold.  I will list the percentage and the US dollars of the sale and give a link to the marketplace.  If you are in another country, I do apologize for not putting up the equivalent, but its not cut and dry as many of you are aware.  If something is $10 here, it might be 7 pounds or 10 Euro, just what they want to price it at.

Continue reading “Xbox 360 BC – Gold Sales for the week of November 17th, 2015” →

Welcome to the 17th iteration of Backwards Compatibility Voting.

It finally happened this week, we got Backwards Compatibility in our Xbox One officially.  One hundred and four titles all there for us to enjoy (assuming we bought the original copy in some form or fashion).  As one could have easily guessed, voting was highly up last week among all titles not marked by Xbox as either in progress or has backwards compatibility.  Let’s check it out.

If you would like a copy of the file that these votes are stored in, please click here: Backwards-votes

Continue reading “11/13 Update on Backwards Compatibility Voting” →

Well, I knew it was going to be today, but its today bright and early at that.  The list, direct from Xbox’s mouth is an interesting one.  I’ll post the full list on the –More– link and then add some analysis later.  I will also update the backwards compatible table by the end of Today.  Enjoy!

Continue reading “Initial List of 104 Titles for Backwards Compatibility for Xbox One” →

Welcome to the 16th iteration of Backwards Compatibility Voting.  As we are surely aware by now, the magic date is November 12th for Backwards Compatibility to begin on all Xbox One consoles.  Even more magic is the 9th which is this Monday where we receive “The List” or the document that will list the roughly one hundred titles that will be backwards compatible on the 12th.  So, as expected, voting has been cranked up and we get plenty to examine.

If you would like a copy of the file that these votes are stored in, please click here: Backwards-votes
Continue reading “11/06 Update on Backwards Compatibility Voting” →

About 3 1/2 months ago, I wrote a column that expressed my guesses at over a hundred Xbox 360 titles of personal favorites and how much of a chance they had at making the cut for backwards compatibility to the Xbox One.  At that time, I was flinging numbers in the air.  However, over time and seeing certain developments in the voting itself as well as various articles, my thoughts changed.  But with BC coming out officially on November 12th (and a list on the 9th), I had to lock down those thoughts this past week.  That worked out to a little less than forty titles over that time period that my thoughts changed on.  This article should help to explain what happened to change those thoughts.  Enjoy.

Continue reading “Updated Percentage Analysis of Backwards Compatibility on the Xbox One” →

Mike Ybarra, Partner Director of Program Management at Microsoft had the following tweet to his followers:

“For those asking we’ll announce the initial set of 100+ backward compatible titles on 11/9, a few days before our launch!”

Of course, if you also take a look at the tweet, under it is a possible leaked list.  I have also posted it here in case it is removed.  I’m not going to speculate too much on it, though I believe it’s probably correct (Darn those Germans)…but I think we’ll wait for the official list on the 9th.

Note…but if its true…what the heck is Killer is Dead & the Prototypes doing on here?