Re:that sucks (Score 1)

I'm not sure that MS knew they were going to change the Intel architecture in the Xbox to the Power PC architecture in the Xbox 360. When a game is created for a console, the devs will usually completely optimize the game for the specific console hardware. After seeing the recomendations MS sends to devs who don't have the SDK to begin working on their games prior to getting the SDK, they give specialized instructions on how to optimize the games to work on the Xbox and Xbox 360. These instructions give me the idea that most devs really go deep into optimization, and taking that opitmization to a completely different platform would cause the games not to work at all. Really, what I thought that MS would do would be to create a fully working emulator to emulate the Xbox within the Xbox 360. That, however, can cause security issues for the Xbox 360 platform because people have already figured out how to hack the Xbox. If the emulator got hacked, then the underlying platform could be hacked as well. I'm not sure how the download will work, but I'm pretty sure that they're doing this to keep hacks out of the Xbox Live area.