I’m no technophile at all but, my understanding with todays announcements, that asgames will not be backwards compatible for the XBox One, that would most likely mean that there will be no Halo 2 Anniversary (or Halo 3) due to its old game code which won’t work on any new XBox. Great shame that!
Or, have I misunderstood something?
The coding for the Halo engine should still be applicable to the Xbox One. What Backward Compatable means is that the system could play 360 or Xbox Original games.
Since Xbox One isn’t, that means you’ll still need an Xbox 360 to play Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST, Reach, Wars, CE:A, and 4.
If Halo 2:A were released for X360, then it wouldn’t be playable on the one. And vice versa. Microsoft did say the planned to continue to support and release games/media for the 360 after the One launches,s o who knows what to expect?
Also, I doubt there’ll ever be an H3 remake. The only reason it makes sense to remake the first two games is they were both Xbox originals, and the technology was a significant leap between Xbox and the 360. I don’t know that the One is quite at the place where it warrants a Halo 3 remake.
I’m no technophile either, but I’m fairly certain devs can still use game code from previous games and port it into the One. For example… I have a feeling the new CoD won’t be terribly different gameplay-wise from previous ones because the core code/design will be the same thing we’ve seen since MW1/2.
Instead of remaking a thread, ask for your other one to be moved next time. Thanks!