They aren’t doing it. We’ve had like 8 threads about this already. Microsoft will never put out any of the 2d fighting games because of how you have things like SF2 Hyper Fighting on the Live arcade. Now, why would anybody buy that if they could just buy frickin Third Strike instead? Microsoft knows this, and they want you to buy Hyper Fighting instead, so they get money instead of Gamestop who you’d buy the used Anniversary Collection from.
Same goes for Capcom. They can force you to give them money if they make you buy Hyper Fighting on the 360, but they’d get NOTHING if you bought a nice, used copy of Anniversary Collection from Gamestop. Because of that, they have no incentive to have the game ported.
They are apparently updating on a quarterly basis.
There’s a BC wishlist thread on Xbox.com where one of the people on the BC team takes feedback from the fans. It’s just that not too many people on there actually request SF: AC so it’s not very high on the priority list, I suppose. :wonder:
Anyway, there are a few games that are BC despite being for sale/planned for sale on XBLA or even as full X360 releases. Far Cry Instincts, Lego Star Wars II, Sonic Mega Collection, Half Life 2, etc.
Sending in email requests (particularly from unique IP addresses) can only help. Doesn’t cost you anything to do and maybe it will let them know that SFAC (and Guilty Gear, Marvel vs Capcom 2, CvS2, etc.) have an active and interested fan base who would be well pleased if MS got them working on the 360.
Please, spread this whereever you can, get as many emails as possible.
I’d like to get as many as we can this week, then do it again in January (odds are the BC team are all on vacation now, so it would be nice to have them come back to a pile of SFAC requests…then again in Jan, again in Feb, again in March…the next update will probably hit in March-April, so we have to hit the ground running and keep the noise level up so they understand our NEED.)
