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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ark Malmeida" data-source="post: 48687" data-attributes="member: 285">I'm in the same boat as you with the amount of content purchased,  but I'm of the opposite opinion about transferring it all over.  I WANT to have it there.  In fact I want it on both machines.  That way I could move the 360 to a TV in a different room, and get the ability to use that content on both consoles.  All of the movie/music content and a good deal of the XBLA games are stylized, meaning that they're not all about graphics as much as games used to be.  If I'm playing some triple A title on the new XBox and want to jump over to a quick game of one of my arcade games, I want to be able to seamlessly do it on the new machine, not have to shut it off and power up the 360 (which with my plans would mean going to a whole different room!).Just seems that it would slow adoption of the new system down and irritate a lot of people who would feel abandoned my Microsoft.  Plus, from what I read when the 360 first came out, Microsoft specifically designed their hardware so it was easy to work with and not proprietary because of the issues they had with backwards compatibility for the original XBox.  If they did it correctly I don't see why they would need to compromise anything in the new hardware to get backwards compatibility.  When someone gets a new, high powered PC they can still pretty much play most of the games from the last 10 years right?  Don't see how this wouldn't be possible on the new XBox, especially because those games were written to work on only one set of hardware.I guess we'll just have to see what happens though!</blockquote>

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