Why the hell would it? the original xbox was made before the 360, so why would it? If the 360 playing original xbox games is called "Backwards Compatibility", have you ever heard of anything called "Forwards Compatibility"? Didn't think so.
the xbox does not play xbox 360 games but some xbox games can be played on the xbox 360 Because the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is not powerful enough in the Original xbox to run xbox 360 games as the graphics for 360 games are too good for the GPU in the original xbox to handle
No, an Xbox 360 game will not run on an original Xbox.
Yes, an xbox 360 Premium can play SOME original xbox games, though often an update is necessary to run the game, and the xbox live guide does not run in original xbox games. In the event that there is no update to allow that particular game to run, you may not be able to play it on 360. But, many lesser known obscure games can still be played on the 360. The games that most often aren't playable on 360 often either have an xbox 360 version and hence the developers didn't allow it, or it has a sequel for the 360 and would've defeated the purpose of bringing that franchise to the 360. For an officail list of original xbox games compatible with an xbox 360, see http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm
In short: no. The Xbox 360 has to install an original Xbox emulator program to run the Xbox games. It stores this emulation software on the hard drive.
xbox 360.The Xbox 360 is the best as it can run games for both the Xbox and the Xbox 360.
The xbox 360 is fairly backwards compatible and can play several if not most of the original xbox games. However, some of these games require updates from the Xbox live online service to run certain older games. There are a few games that are not able to play on the Xbox 360 for various reasons. There should be a list of backwards compatible games online.
Well, of course.
Yes. Both the Australian xbox 360 and NZ xbox 360 run on PAL coding so therefore the games will work.
I believe its a custom O/S just for Xbox 360. The original Xbox was running Windows custom.
A Microsoft XBOX 360 does not run an emulator. You can only play XBOX based games. Any XBOX 360 that has an emulator to play non XBOX games is a modded XBOX 360.
I'm afraid it is not, xbox 360 games have security on their disks, even if you go past that there is no emulator and even if there were, the cost of a computer that could run xbox 360 games would be FAR greater then the cost of and xbox 360 it self.
Since there is no hard proof of what the "Xbox 720" will have hardware-wise, we will not know till it comes out. I personally think there will be backwards-compatibility since it was there with the 360 as you could run original Xbox games on it.