andythevillan wrote:Another good addition to the back catalogue. Good that MS still seem to be committed to the BC. I wonder how much resources it takes, probably less now they have experience of emulating and that there is much less patching of existing BC games. Still it cannot be much of a buck earner overall.
They don't have to emulate the games though, the 360 hardware itself is what's being emulated. They literally just have to test the game to make sure it works, although I'm sure that's a fairly time consuming process.
In terms of it being a moneyspinner I'd bet there's been a decent upturn in people buying digital copies of these games. You ought to see the prices of games at CEX go up every time they join the program, especially things like Call Of Duty and Red Dead Redemption.