This news was sprung a while ago but I think it’s worth mentioning. For a while Microsoft was a bit standoffish regarding 360’s backwards compatibility. On Tuesday we heard news that only a portion of the Xbox library will work on the 360, but we weren’t given a list. We assumed that most of the Microsoft published games would work.

The process doesn’t seem so straight forward. The 360 uses a different cpu and gpu chipset, so not even pa Microsoft knows which Xbox games will work on the 360. At least not until they go back to the old source and recompile games with their new development tools. That means we shouldn’t expect a comprehensive list any time soon.

Infomatics.co.uk has the story. There is some good news out of this, though - it seems the 360 will have at least 20, and maybe as many as 40 launch titles! The N64 had.. what..? 5 titles?