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Although seemingly more of an issue for Playstation 3 owners, the question often arises if the Nintendo Wii or Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is backwards compatible as well.  Fortunately, the answer to this question is a pretty straight-forward one for both consoles.

For Wii owners there is good news and bad news.  The good news is that the Wii is backwards compatible with nearly all official Nintendo GameCube titles, memory cards and controllers.  The bad news is that GameCube controllers and accessories are required to play GameCube games on the Wii – the Wii is restricted to the previous console’s functionality and cannot save GameCube games on its flash memory.  Most owners probably won’t consider this much of an issue though as they’re likely to already own one or two GameCube controllers if they own any GameCube games.

On the other hand, the Xbox 360 is only backwards compatible with a select number of Xbox game titles which can be found here.  The reason for this limited support is that each original Xbox game requires an “emulation profile” in order to function properly on an Xbox 360.  These profiles can be downloaded through either the console’s Xbox Live service or Xbox.com, and may sometimes even be distributed with periodical publications.  Regardless of how the emulation profile is obtained however, an Xbox 360 MUST have a hard drive in order to play Xbox titles – most of the games designed for the original console require a hard drive to save game files and downloadable content.

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There are lots of original XBOX Games I wanted to see playable on 360 , Namely the Midway Arcade Treasures ones and the Capcom Classics games. However sad to say it looks like MS isnt caring about BC anymore

Theres also some good capcom fighters that are unfortunately not playable on the 360