Psychonauts’ Cry for Compatibility
Double Fine’s Psychonauts is a highly acclaimed title across many platforms, but yielded poor sales figures. Some say that the release of this title was a major factor in Majesco‘s descent in the gaming industry. However, if reviews are anything to go by then Psychonauts couldn’t have played the accused role. Psychonauts was one of the highest rated games of 2005 and Tim Schafer, creator of Psychonauts (and also Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle) is calling for help to have this game made backwards-compatible for the Xbox360.
On the developer’s website, Schafer asks that all fans of the Psychonauts game write to the Microsoft Xbox360 Backwards-Compatibility Team with “heartfelt” letters to help bump up the game’s priority. After writing his own touching letter to Microsoft, Schafer offers some tips on what he feels might help your letter make an impact.
“I want you to… send Microsoft a heartfelt message. Something to the effect of, ‘I am a 9-year-old boy in the hospital, dying of consumption, and my last wish is to play Psychonauts on my XBOX 360!’ (Please, try to make up your own disease.)“
I sure would like to see Psychonauts playable on the 360, but if I’m going to come down with some strange terminal illness, there might be some other titles I’d like to see running on the 360 first.
Via Double Fine
Double Fine’s Psychonauts is a highly acclaimed title across many platforms, but yielded poor sales figures. Some say that the release of this title was a major factor in Majesco‘s descent in the gaming industry. However, if reviews are anything to go by then Psychonauts couldn’t have played the accused role. Psychonauts was one of the highest rated games of 2005 and Tim Schafer, creator of Psychonauts (and also Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle) is calling for help to have this game made backwards-compatible for the Xbox360.
On the developer’s website, Schafer asks that all fans of the Psychonauts game write to the Microsoft Xbox360 Backwards-Compatibility Team with “heartfelt” letters to help bump up the game’s priority. After writing his own touching letter to Microsoft, Schafer offers some tips on what he feels might help your letter make an impact.
“I want you to… send Microsoft a heartfelt message. Something to the effect of, ‘I am a 9-year-old boy in the hospital, dying of consumption, and my last wish is to play Psychonauts on my XBOX 360!’ (Please, try to make up your own disease.)“
I sure would like to see Psychonauts playable on the 360, but if I’m going to come down with some strange terminal illness, there might be some other titles I’d like to see running on the 360 first.
Via Double Fine
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