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Xbox Boss "Really Wants" Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for Backwards Compatibility

Black Ops II would be the fifth Xbox 360 Call of Duty game playable on Xbox One.

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Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops II is the most-requested game for the Xbox One's backwards compatibility program through the Xbox Feedback site. It has more than 207,000 community votes, far outpacing the No. 2 game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which has 170,000-plus votes.

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Fans may be happy to learn that Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said he "really want[s]" Black Ops II to come to Xbox One via backwards compatibility.

"Please don't take my lack of response on [Black Ops II] as a lack of caring. I really want to see this come to [backwards compatibility]," he said to a fan on Twitter.

The original Black Ops is already in the backwards compatibility catalog, alongside other Xbox 360 Call of Duty games like Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3, and Call of Duty: World at War.

January has already been a strong month for the backwards compatibility catalog in terms of volume and quality. Microsoft has added 10 games to the program this month, including Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, Mega Man 9, and Mega Man 10.

You can see a list of the 300-plus backwards compatibility games here.

In other backwards compatibility news, Spencer clarified on Twitter that Project Scorpio's backwards compatibility program will work exactly as it does on Xbox One, featuring the same slate of games. Microsoft confirmed in November 2016 that Scorpio, a new, more powerful Xbox console, will play Xbox 360 games.

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So, I should of just kept my 360.

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The BLOPS games are the worst COD games of the lot. Treyarch's last decent COD game was WAW and thankfully it's now playable on X1.

Gimme MW2 over the plops shite any day. Cmon MS/Activision give us MW2 pls. ?✌️

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@gamerbum: i like your style. Im prolly the only one wanting MW3 though to lol

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@stealthy1Not the only one.

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Hey Microsoft! How about you start using all those resources to develop new exclusives instead of digging up games from the past?? Xbox fanboys rip on PS4 fanboys for remakes and remasters but they have more last gen games available now on their console of choice than the PS4 does. It's sad that a decent percentage of Xbox One owners are playing more old games than new ones because of a lack of the former.

I just bought my Xbox One S three months ago. Only games I've played on it was Halo 5, Sunset Overdrive and recently Lost Odyssey. The only games I don't already own on my PC mind you. Forza Horizon 3 and Gears 4 are great games but they're just not enough. I recently sold my One S because it's been an absolutely useless gaming machine.

Hopefully by the time Scorpio comes out Microsoft would have gotten their shit together. I mean, if you don't have enough exclusives to set your console apart from the competition how do you expect people to choose your console over the other??

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@Rushaoz: Getting 360 games to become backwards compatible on Xbox One takes very little resources. The reason why it takes so long to get certain games to become backwards compatible is because they need permission from the publisher and the publisher doesn't always want to give it.

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Just make Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen BC instead. That game is 100x better.

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And I'm still waiting for Radiant Silvergun as the last game I care about coming to XB1 BC, so hopefully we both get our wishes someday.

Yeah because Bethesda is going to let Skyrim 360 cannibalize the remaster sales on XB1, keep dreaming folks.

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What does an "Xbox boss" do exactly? I used to assume that meant he would be in charge of the Xbox division, but every article seems to be about how he doesn't know what they're doing about something, or that he wants something but is powerless to make it happen.

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So now that we know Phil wants it... We have another reason to hate on Activision. Yay!

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There is no reason to if they won't clear out the hackers.

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Why don't the gamers that want BO2 tweet Activision instead of Microsoft? This is all Activision, so might as well go to the hand that feeds you.

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@kvally: Most are too ignorant and have no clue that it is Activision who makes the decision, not Microsoft.

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Here comes our daily phil article. Cant this guy gives us new games? Backwards compability is cool but where those exclusive man?

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@sakaixx: No, he can't.

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of course you want it, phil, no shit.

Imagine how bad it would make Sony look if one of the best call of duty games came to xbox one but not PS4, which is supposed to be cod exclusive. It would actually bring people to xbox.

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@biggamerdude: Maybe because it's the number one requested game?

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@biggamerdude: No, it wouldn't.

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No offense, but how many CoD games could you possibly want to play? Just seems like an odd game to request when there's a new one every year. It's like requesting madden 2007 (or whatever it's called).

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@joshrmeyer: except it's not. Black Ops 2 for many is the best or most fun. That's why we want it backwards compatable.

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@Zzshock: I prefer MW2, but either way, I'm not really into CoD. I don't think I ever finished the campaign on Blop2 either. It's been so long I hope I'm actually talking about the right game... it's the one where you go through an airport slaughtering people (hard to forget that part).

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@joshrmeyer: it really isn't like that.

COD games come out every year but they still are developed by three different companies, eachone takes 2 to 3 years to make. And they're all different, not the same game over and over again.

Plus BO2 is one of the best ones

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@biggamerdude: The newest one looked awesome in the previews at e3. I couldn't believe it was CoD. I may give it a shot once it's really cheap.

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@joshrmeyer: I wouldn't recommend it either, but for different reasons.

MP sucks and isn't fun, but the campaign and zombies are really good. If you can see yourself buying it just for those two then go ahead

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@joshrmeyer: If you're talking about Infinite Warfare, I would not recommend it. I played every CoD for the full year till the next one since WaW, and IW is the least enjoyable and most boring one. They basically tried to copy every aspect of Bo3 but failed miserably. The game was a flop, and was the worst $100 i have every spent in my life. I'd take any other CoD over this one, its honestly trash. The time to kill is horrible, servers are trash and you always get kicked from games cause "Game Lobby Was Closed" or "Host Has Closed the Server", and its just a boring game to be honest. The Campaign was short and had the worst story/plot of any CoD cause they couldn't think of more B.S. and horrible futuristic shit to pull from their asses (Which almost all the missions we're the same objective to go destroy the stars/planets until you reach the main enemy who you destroy and game over). Looks like im playing Bo3 for a second year in a row.

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@biggamerdude: Black Ops 2 was the last best boots on the ground COD. Modern Warfare 2 is the the best overall, but BO2 is a perfect combination of modern and future tech.

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We've got Black Ops on backwards compatibility. BLOPS2 is the most requested game and Im guessing Activision will capitalize on that with a remastered edition bundled with next CoD game this year. I would say they would wait until Treyarch puts out their next one, but that's almost 2 years away.

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as my POS dad always said, want in one hand and sh**t in the other and see which fills up faster......

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@darthrevenx: Wish?

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@xcrimsonxsynx: NO, Which, [as in Which one?]

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@darthrevenx: he means wish instead of the word "want"

This is a green day lyric anyway, geek stink breath

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@muzza93: I don't listen to Green Day eww, also the way i wrote it is how I first heard the phrase said.....so yeah....

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Sadly the (obvious) answer is that Activision is pondering whether to BC now and remaster down the road, or just remaster down the road...

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@Silver17: If they had brains, they would release to BC now and very likely see some new sales in the game like Black Ops had when it went BC, and then drop a Black Ops Remaster with both BO 1&2.

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@scblais:

Great suggestion, and that's what we want. However Activision knows that if they make BO2 BC, then that interferes with their SD sales. They even already hinted that BO3 will have DLC content this year.

The only way that I see BO2 BC happening any time soon is if Microsoft hands Activision over a big bag of cash... :(

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Personally I would prefer Modern Warfare 2 & 3 over Blops dose.

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@fanboyman: they will probably remaster MW2 to re sell again

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@fanboyman: Modern Warfare 3 IS backwards compatible. They added it on Nov 29th

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@wrestlingfann41: Nope, it's not. Yet.

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@wrestlingfann41: I think that was a rumor. I don't see confirmation of Modern Warfare 3 anywhere, not in the article or GameSpot's BC list. I don't have a digital copy so it's not in my download list, I don't know, where did hear MW3's BC?

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@fanboyman: I am sure those will come too.

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