OG Xbox Creator Wants To Know If You'd Buy A New Classic Console

What made NES, SNES and Mega Drive Mini work was that a gigantic portion of the notable games from those consoles were 1st party (Nintendo 1st party for NES and SNES, SEGA 1st party with Mega Drive).

Meanwhile like the PS1, most of the notable OG Xbox titles were 3rd party so just like the PS Classic you end up with a collection of games that doesn't really represent the console well because of licensing issues. On top of that OG Xbox has licensing issues with some 1st party games (e.g. Project Gotham Racing).

But even if it all worked out with licensing, I'd much prefer Microsoft focused on bringing more games to the backwards compatibility program for XB1 and Series X|S.

I just don't know why? Don't all Xbox 1 games work on Xbox Series now anyway? Or at the least on Xbox One? Unless I'm mistaken why buy a machine to do a proportion of what everyone's current machine can already do? Confused on this one

If it looked like that, I'd probably just buy it as a decoration, if it played decent games, that's a bonus.

@StonyKL PC's can play every console game from the PS2 backwards (even a bad PC nowadays), it doesn't make retro versions of all those consoles redundant.

I think there's a difference between playing on a system that can play the games, and playing on a system that's purposefully designed for those games. It can be made to be a much smoother and enjoyable experience, sprinkled with nostalgia, as that's what these consoles are relying on.

For me it mainly comes down to what games are on it and how good is the emulation - after that then it's simply a matter of cost to see if its worth the money.

Nice idea for the retro collectors, but ultimately actual OG Xbox are readily available at a low price or you could pick up a Series S for not much more than what this would cost and play all 4 gen.

YES OF COURSE, GIMME GIMME

@FraserG Okay - didn't know that. Always assumed they all worked.
I have a SNES mini and it was awesome for a brief moment but then I realised that most of the games hadn't aged very well at all. I remembered F-Zero as one of my favourite games, but it made me feel sick trying to play it. Its an epileptics worst nightmare!

BC >>>> new classic console

I'd be onbard with the caveat that it includes ports for original Xbox controller. The main thing I'd play on this is Steel Battalion, much like I do with my current OG Xbox. But it would need that port for that massive controller you have to use.

@FraserG MS needs to hunt down all those right owners and get more or those games added to BC!

Heck, why using Blinx 2 there yet? Isn't it owned by MS?

Anyways, as for the console: not interested on game streaming console. I would throw money at a mini Xbox that litterally just had halo in it, though. Would never even plug it in, just line it up with my other mini consoles.

I’m sure people that are into retro games would love this, but it’s definitely not for me. I’ve been gaming for over 30 years, but rarely go back to old games.

If it actually played discs and didn't solely resort to streaming, I'd definitely consider it. But I have to echo others' comments and say that I'd prefer more Xbox 360 and OG Xbox games to be added to Series X's backwards compatibility.

Definitely I already have a PS1 classic & a SNES classic & would definitely be up for having an Xbox classic aswell

I would buy it either way but the 2 things I would want would be compatibility with all Xbox controllers and make it able to play discs from OG and 360 as well. Then I would have 2 consoles to play the entire xbox library. I am worried about my 360 and OG Xbox continuing to work the older they get. Its a little disappointing how much of my old collections are not playable in the back compat feature of Series X/XB1

I'd really like to play Rallisport Challenge again. At the time of the OG Box it was far and away my favourite racing game.

I have 2 consoles already that play original Xbox games. I probably don’t need a third but I’ll wait for details

If they do a mini console then yes. I’m still hoping sony does a ps2 classic. Streaming though, not so much as you would likely be stuck with the same BC game... I have a 360 and a xbone for that.

@Grumblevolcano : I'm sure the SNES Mini/Classic would have been a success regardless, but the inclusion of a previously-unreleased game (Star Fox 2) probably pushed that success further. Fans tend to go nuts for unreleased, beta, remade, and remixed content.

As far as this OG Xbox Classic goes if it streamed OG Xbox games I'd be pretty disappointed if it couldn't run xCloud, with all the 360, One, and Series X / S games that service includes, to be honest.

How about just letting me put any of my original Xbox discs into my Series X and actually being able to play them? I have games that are not included in backwards compatibility and it irritates me.

@electrolite77 Or they could simply add a disc drive, so we can actually play our own original games on it...

Yes lol, I would find a place to proudly display that.

If it has everything the Xbox Series X has or better, Yes! Otherwise what's the point.

I'm not sure if i would get this, Aren't most Xbox games backward compatible anyway..

I'd have to wait and see. If it was as well done as SNES Classic and Genesis Mini, I'd certainly give it strong consideration but MS also has the best backwards compatibility program that includes games going back to the OG Xbox so a lot would depend on price.

I’d be interested maybe but I’d rather Microsoft add way more games to the BC program! There are tons missing still!
Besides, I have my original Xbox and also a modded 2TB Xbox loaded with 40,000 retro games including 700+ original Xbox games preloaded. A beautiful piece of mod! I’ll cry like a little girl the day it dies!! Lol

What I'd like them to do is unlock the whitelist that blocks most of the OG library from running on 360 BC. While about half the games are cleared on 360, alot of those are sports or licenced games. Most of the unusual and interesting games don't work on BC.

Just make more games backwards compatible on current gen please.

No, we do not buy these useless toys. Just give us more OG Xbox BC! Done!

@FraserG Many of my favourite '360 games don't even work on XSX (F.E.A.R, Condemned 2 etc) so this backward compatibility is a bit over-sold. I ended up bringing out my own 360 again. No word on if they're still working on improving compatibility.

Don't see the point of this when so many OG Xbox games are backwards compatible anyways. People will inevitably complain about whatever games get included in the box.

@StonyKL yeah thinking the same thing. You can already play pretty much everything within the Xbox Series S for £250.

An Xbox Classic Edition? Hell yeah!

@electrolite77 There are no benefits to Game Pass, at least not for me. I'm still not interested in it.

Or, as the old and wise wizard Gandalf the Grey once said:
"You shall not (Game) Pass!"...

@electrolite77 No, I mean "We". "We" does not mean all or a majority. Even a minority is a "we".

@electrolite77 Would definitely be something cool, to be part of all that.

As for Game Pass: even though I do use services like Netflix, I can't ever see myself liking and/or using disposable services like that in gaming. And because you basically have EVERYTHING available all at once, I find that it becomes less special.

Like letting the kid loose in the toy or candy store, telling him he can grab whatever he wants. But besides that, there's also the usually uneven in/out mechanism of titles going on.

On here, you literally see articles almost every week telling you that 8 titles will be leaving Game Pass, only to be followed the same day or a day later by another article, stating that 5 new titles will be added. What if I was still playing or interested in playing one of these titles that have been removed?

In that case, I might as well buy them straight away, instead of feeling forced to play and then buy them because Game Pass is pushing me to do so. Besides, I want FULL ownership of my games, so some kind of rent-a-thon is never going to be my thing.

And on top of all that, I just don't have the time anymore to dedicate that many hours to gaming, so I need to be a bit picky, or what usually happens, is that I've added the umpteenth title to my already massive back log...

Even if all online services would die down, or if I would never be able to own another physical game on any of the newer consoles, I'd still have more than enough games here already, to keep me busy for more than a life time, so I'm good either way.

@electrolite77 Yeah, I guess that's the upside of it, being able to try out games a little more risk-free. And then buying, if you'd wish to do so, but as a kind of "Netflix for gaming", it just isn't for me, I guess.

But it's good that it's here, for those that do like it, because people should have options and choices, so I most definitely wouldn't want to deny other people the service, so in that respect, we most definitely do agree.