No More Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility Updates

January 13, 2008

Posted at 1:26 am in Xbox, Xbox 360

Seeing as how old the Xbox is, Microsoft has decided to wind down development of backwards compatibility updates for the Xbox 360, instead focusing more on newer games.

Speaking to Kotaku at CES, Albert Penello, group marketing manager for the Microsoft console, said that the company has “kind of hit the point of diminishing returns” and that he doesn’t know if there are any plans for further releases.

However, Microsoft is offering an olive branch to gamers, as they will be offering Xbox Originals, full games from the past console as downloadable titles, on Xbox Live Marketplace starting this week. Burnout 3 will be the first title available on January 14 for 1200 Microsoft points (US$15).

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