Seriously.
Buy an entire mechanical keyboard made of solid aluminum that you could literally bludgeon someone to death with and still have money leftover, or buy this thing! It’s super rad!
Wat?
So people who have no idea pro controllers cost upwards to $200 are shocked to hear that a new pro controller costs $150? Well, okay then.
The preview program registration app should be in the XBO app store. Looks like it really is invite only at the moment, but I thought it was open at one point. If anyone wants to add me, I’m jamuelscones on XBL. I’ll see about sending out invites.
prolix
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I think they mentioned they won’t be able to port the 360 Kinect games because they are based on the old sensor.
They could of course be ported, but probably not emulated directly.
In the E3 presentation, they scrolled through a list of titles they are working on right now to add BC.
Alan Wake
Assassin’s Creed
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Bayonetta
Bioshock
Bioshock Infinite
Borderlands
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway(?)
Call of Juarez
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood(?)
Cars 2
Child of Eden
Civilization Revolution
Clash of Heroes HD
Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2
Dead Space
Fable 2
Fallout 3
Far Cry 2
Far Cry: Blood Dragon
Forza 2
Forza 4
Forza Horizon
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Halo 3
Halo CE: Anniversary Edition
Halo Reach
Mass Effect
Ninja Gaiden 3
Pacman Championship Edition DX
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Rainbow Six: Vegas
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Rayman Legends
Rayman Origins
Risen 3
Sacred 2
Saint’s Row: The Third
Shadow Complex
Shadowrun
Sonic Adventure 2
Soul Caliber V
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Toy Story 3
Vanquish
Good to hear the Xbox One is finally getting its killer app in Pac-Man Championship Edition DX.
Also, if the BC 360 game supports cloud save you’ll get access to your saves as well.
Apparently they have already added titles since the announcement yesterday, so hopefully there will be a pretty robust library quickly.
Sounds like Ubisoft is fully on board with the backward compatibility. It will be nice to continue to make my way through the AC: Revelations before moving onto AC3 4 5. I must be the only person in the world wishing they would go back to building big worlds with shorter games like the original AC.
$150 for a controller is kind of dumb, but there is certainly an audience out there for it as there are a bunch of companies doing the modifications to make EXTREMELY similar looking gamepads at pretty similar prices. If you work for a company like Scuff, you have to be worrying now because Microsoft just copied your business and made it official.
I have to admit i’m kind of tempted. Maybe if it has native wireless to PC (IE it comes with a PC dongle) and it can be recharged (xbox 360 wireless gamepad was going to bankrupt me from battery use). For $150 i’d expect these without having to spend another $20 for each to get add-ons. I’d also expect it to be capable of love. And pancakes.
$150 for a “prosumer” level controller is about right. As others have said Scuf and a few other small companies have been demanding similar prices for their work.
https://scufgaming.com/store/scuf-one/
hepcat
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It sounds like you won’t actually be using the 360 disc for the BC in an Xbox One. Instead, you’ll insert the disc and a digital copy will be downloaded and used. But I wonder if you have to have the disc in when playing that digital copy? I’m guessing yes. Otherwise you could just borrow games from folks and get them for free. Also, I wonder if there’s going to be any built in “gotcha” for used games?
This is one of those options that just sails right past me. It’s cool looking I guess, but to be honest I doubt I’d buy one if it were the same price as the standard controller I have. This is a level of control (read: fiddlyness) that I am happy to abdicate, in the same way I am not nostalgic for struggling with upper memory and boot disks to play certain games. Looks like there are definitely people who would only be too happy to pay the price, and more power to them. Between this and finding out that a remake of FF7 is apparently something a lot of people were clamoring for, I am getting an education this week.
I’m pretty sure you’ll have to keep the disc in the drive to play the game, even if its really playing the downloaded copy.
I’m wondering if you’ll need to be online as well? Obviously, you’ll need to be online the first time to get the download, but will you need to be online any time you want to fire up the game?
RickH
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That’s the way XB1 games are currently working, the disc presence is needed as a ‘token’ to verify ownership, but if you have digital ownserhip/permissions, the same installed game will just boot up. I noticed that when PvZ:GW was added to the EA vault, I could just fire up the install I had originally done by disk with no changes.
So the XBLA stuff like Far Cry Blood Dragon should be seamless.
$150 for a pro controller is not unreasonable. Serious CoD players spend $500 on headsets, and they mod the shit out of their controllers to the tune of hundreds of dollars to achieve something like what Microsoft is offering now for $150
rowe33
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Ahhh, that explains why I’m not as good as I used to be. Definitely not that I’m getting older!
Kadath
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So nobody is in the preview program and able to share an invite?
