Xbox 360 to support 200+ Xbox based videogames

Xbox 360 to support 200+ Xbox based videogames

With the launch of their next generation video gaming system less than 10 days away, software giants Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox 360 would play many games for its current-generation console, including Halo, Ninja Gaiden, KOTOR, Fable, GTA, and more. This list is pretty big and contains more than 200+ titles.

The important part is that all the top Xbox games are supported, including Halo and Halo 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I and II, Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden Black, and the three Grand Theft Autos: III, Vice City and San Andreas.

This number is expected to increase in the near future as the company fixes the adoptability of the games in their new generation console. In fact, even more interesting was the news that any of the backwards-compatible games will be playable cross-platform between the Xbox 360 and Xbox over Xbox Live.

However, getting to play an Xbox game on the Xbox 360 gaming console would not be an easy task for the end gamer. To play an Xbox game on the 360, players must first insert the current-generation game into a next-generation console hooked up to Xbox Live. This is to get the system to check if the console has the latest emulation software. If not, it will automatically download said software, install it on the 360, restart, and load the original Xbox game.

This also means that a 360 hard drive–which comes with the Halo and Halo 2 software preinstalled–is required to store the backwards-compatibility software. Users who cannot get online on Xbox Live, they would be able to go to Xbox.com, download the emulators, burn them onto a CD, and then insert said CD into the 360, which will auto-install the software.