The red rings are a threat to any Xbox360 owner. However until the extended 3-year warranty came along last year Microsoft couldn't care less.
In an interview with the BBC Bill Gates is doing one better. He believes with the new warranty and updated hardware that the Xbox360 may become the ”most reliable” console out there.
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In November of last year, the Xbox360 received another backwards compatibility update bringing the total number of supported original Xbox games to over 450. That update may have been the last, however, according to group marketing manager Albert Penello.
Speaking to Kotaku, Penello noted, "I don't know if we have plans to do any more releases. It feels like we kind of hit the point of diminishing returns there. I know with the Xbox Originals, there are still things happening there, but in terms of a lot of engineering work around bringing out new titles, I think they're winding that down." Xbox360
Penello said that Microsoft at this point has upheld its promise from a corporate standpoint to make its most popular original Xbox titles playable on Xbox360. "For the most part, we've crossed off games that people want to play," he said. "There's always going to be a notable exception here or there."
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