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No more BC updates for Xbox360

Top Microsoft man says that may be it

NEWS: 11 January 2008 14:06 GMT by Katie Scott

According to an interview with the onlie gamer's guide, Kotaku, Micorsoft may stop its Xbox 360 backwards compatibility updates.

Group marketing manager Albert Penello said in the interview: "I don't know if we have plans to do any more releases.

"It feels like we kind of hit the point of diminishing returns there. I know with the Xbox Originals, there are still things happening there, but in terms of a lot of engineering work around bringing out new titles, I think they're winding that down."

He suggested that a dminishing number of gamers are playing Xbox games on the Xbox 360 console these days, and added that Microsoft believes it has covered most of the important "top selling" games anyway.

Penello admits this is "not exactly the answer everyone wants to hear", but did say that there would be some one-off releases.

>> Via - Eurogamer


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