Want Psychonauts on Xbox 360?

By Tom Bramwell Published 15 June, 2006

Double Fine does.

Turns out we're not the only ones who want Psychonauts to work on Xbox 360 as well as Xbox - excellent-game developer Double Fine Productions wants you to email Microsoft pretending to be dying children so they'll sort it out.

This is what they said: "I want you to get up. I want you to walk over to your window right now. I want you to open your window up, and then I want you to stick your head out, and then I want you to take in a nice breath of fresh air, and then I want you to close that window and walk back to your computer and click on this link and 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.)"

As you all know, Psychonauts was our favourite game of 2005 despite coming out here in 2006, and was one of the funniest and simultaneously very-good-est platform games released on Xbox (even if the PS2 version was a bit naff).

So it wouldn't exactly be a bad thing if you could play it on Xbox 360. Especially since PAL Xbox consoles don't support progressive-scan, whereas PAL Xbox 360s do - and the prospect of playing Psychonauts in every-prettier-ity gives us an even more convincing reason to waste four paragraphs talking about Psychonauts when our boss says we have better things to do.

Five in fact.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Hicksy #1 6 years ago

    DOOOOOO-IT

  • Steroyd #2 6 years ago

    wow what a coincidence they put up the Bacwards Compat plea in the 10 top games for B/C and now this guy is telling us to e-mail MS.

    MS doesn't have a heart anyway they won't even listen to a five year old girl on life support.
    Edited by Steroyd at 15/06/06 @ 11:39

  • DiscoMike #3 6 years ago

    Or they could port it to the 360 with enchanced graphics, more features etc.

  • Balסּr #4 6 years ago

    Perhaps you should Email them, Steroyd! They may well even send you an amusing reply, if you compose an interesting enough email.

    See...?
    Edited by Balסּr at 15/06/06 @ 11:47

  • #5 6 years ago

    zzzzZZZZzzzzZZZZ

    Again, how is this stuff front-page worthy?

    Or they could port it to the 360 with enchanced graphics, more features etc.

    And make more money. - See what they did there!

  • the_dudefather #6 6 years ago

    i hear jack thompson doesnt want MS to add psychonauts compatibilty

    do YOU want to be like Jack?

  • SlackMaster #7 6 years ago

    Hmm maybe they'll change that email address once all the forumites here vent their anger. :s

  • Grunk #8 6 years ago

    Email goes like this:

    Hello I'm a japanese gamer.
    I would like to play psychonaughts on an Xbox 360

    problem solved

  • MrAtheist #9 6 years ago

    Dear MS

    I am one of the 7 people who bought Pyschonauts for the Xbox. Please waste a load of time and resources getting it to work on your new console.

    Regards
    Captain Assclown

    :)

  • kangarootoo #10 6 years ago

    @jamesphilp

    Front page worthy? Where else is there to put it exactly? And given how many people liked PNs, it probably does qualify as important news regardless.

  • Bumbuliuz #11 6 years ago

    I want that game so bad to be BC compat. I hope Microsoft will figure this one out soon

  • neilka #12 6 years ago

    In the thread Balor linked to, Microsoft have already replied saying they're working on it (or rather "we hope to have Psychonauts working before you develop lesions";).

  • BrokenSymmetry #13 6 years ago

    From emedicine.com:

    "The initial lesion of primary syphilis develops at the site of transmission after an incubation period of 10-90 days, with a mean of about 21-28 days, and then heals spontaneously in 3-7 weeks."

    This means that we should have Psychonauts backwards compatible within 3 months!

  • morriss #14 6 years ago

    I sent a mail to them 'ages' ago and they said they wanted it but it was out of their hands.

  • NthSimulachum #15 6 years ago

    Bah, MS should be liasing with the original developers to aid emulation. Especially for engines developed in-house(like psychonauts).

    They better do Timesplitters. I could live without Doom 3, Fahrenheit or Pirates.

  • Nause #16 6 years ago

    Come on COME ON FFS I can't put of playing this game for much longer.

  • Stormflood #17 6 years ago

    Dear MS

    I am one of the millions of people who expected Xbox 360 to be backward compatible. Why isn't it?

    Regards
    Captain Assclown

    :)

    Fixed