Will XBox 360 games work on regular XBox?

jap200

Sorry for my ignorance, but please can someone answer the question above for me?

I got one of the megabargain XBox console packages for £10 in Boots a while back and have been saving it for my boys for Xmas. I know it is not the 'latest thing' but they have not had any console at all before, so I think they will be v. pleased with it. My hubby and I don't have any experience at all with these things as yet.

I want to see if I can get Lego Star Wars for them and wondered if the 360 version will work.

bingo_bango

Fraid not. The Xbox 360 is backwards compatible for most games AFAIK, meaning that it will play Xbox games, but the same isn't true the other way round.

cdbrown

Lego Star Wars and Lego Star Wars II games are both available on the original xbox. A lot of games released on the xbox 360 are also released on the xbox and are generally cheaper as well.

C_Ronaldo

jap200 wrote:

Sorry for my ignorance, but please can someone answer the question above for me?

I got one of the megabargain XBox console packages for £10 in Boots a while back and have been saving it for my boys for Xmas. I know it is not the 'latest thing' but they have not had any console at all before, so I think they will be v. pleased with it. My hubby and I don't have any experience at all with these things as yet.

I want to see if I can get Lego Star Wars for them and wondered if the 360 version will work.

they wont work purely for the fact that the 360 is a next gen console and the xbox isnt also so the games fro the 360 are going to be a higher spec or require more power(not actually power but u know what i mean) to run

crompton

bingo_bango wrote:

Fraid not. The Xbox 360 is backwards compatible for most games AFAIK, meaning that it will play Xbox games, but the same isn't true the other way round.

be careful! they are only backwards compatible if you have the hard drive added on to it

BaileyB

So will normal XBOX games work on a XBOX 360 console? As been told it will not.

crompton

only if you have the xbox 360 hard drive

TheFaqqer

You need the hard drive (which is worth getting anyway!), but even then not all games will run on the 360.

Microsoft have published a list and info on compatability here: http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/backwardcompatabilityfaq.htm

HTH,

Faqqer

BaileyB

So if i buy the extra version and not the core it will work?

C_Ronaldo

Mr_Kennedy wrote:

So will normal XBOX games work on a XBOX 360 console? As been told it will not.

The normal xbox games will only work on a 360 if A; you have a hard as previously stated and B: if the game you want to play is in microsofts compatibility list which is here

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm





So if i buy the extra version and not the core it will work?

No you need the hard drive which comes with the premium pack, you can buy the hard drive separate but its cheaper if you buy a premium pack

BaileyB

Ok read the link and now even more confused.