Posted by mewthree no, you are missing the point... once the xbox720 is no longer current... and the xbox1440 is current... there will be no server to connect to and therefore you can no longer play your games you bought. For the backwards compatibility issues, yes you are right... take out the n64 and play it to play those games.... there is no kill switch on the n64... try playing halo 2 online... you can't. but you can at least still play single player... being connected online isn't the issue... the games aren't just looking to be connected online. They are looking to be connected to a specific server... which will not outlive the 720. What they will probably do is tell you to buy the 1440, and rebuy the game again.

the single player wont be online ever, there may be online leaderboards but the game would never be connected. Unless you are streaming the games online.