Xbox Backward Compatibility Wish List Site overflowing with Transformers requests

Xbox's latest tactic in a series of, so far quite successful, attempts to win back users is a website where people can wishlist games they wish were backwards compatible with the latest consoles. If Asha Sharma wants to keep winning over the Xbox crowd, she better hope Hasbro is ready to negotiate, because all you seem to want are Xbox 360-era Transformers games.

Transformers Games Top List Xbox Backward Compatibility Wish List

transformers fall off cybertron autobots helping the bumblebee.

The Xbox Game Preservation website has now been live for a while. If there are games from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 that you want to play on Series X|S and Project Helix that aren't currently available, that's where you need to make your voice heard, and so far the loudest voices belong to Transformers fans.

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More than 300,000 votes have been cast so far, and the front runner right now for the most wanted backwards compatible game is Transformers: War for Cybertron, with more than 8,000 votes. Just behind it is its sequel, Fall of Cybertron, with about 7,700 votes. You have then The Simpsons: Hit & Run to break things up before a run of four more Transformers games – Devastation, Dark of the Moon, Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: The Game.

I considered taking this opportunity to say that there were too many Transformers games on the Xbox 360, but the desire to make them all playable on modern consoles proves my opinion wrong.

If you focus solely on the 360 leaderboard, Transformers' backwards-compatible dominance of the wish list is even more apparent. Without Hit & Run to spoil the party, all six of the top spots on the 360 leaderboard are occupied by Transformers games, with a seventh, Rise of the Dark Sparkcreeps into the top ten.

Activision published Transformers Games on Xbox 360

Soundwave in Transformers: War for Cybertron.

The good news for anyone hoping that Xbox actually uses this list to make things happen is that all of these Transformers games were published by Activision, a studio that Xbox now owns. However, it's likely that the process of making the titles backwards compatible will be more difficult than finding them on an old USB at Activision HQ so that someone with the knowledge to do so can work their magic.

No, since Transformers is a big IP with ownership everywhere due to its movies, toys, and video games, there will almost certainly be one big mess about exactly how Xbox can legally revive these 360 games. There may be a way to make it happen, though, and eventually Xbox will need to do more than polish its performance badges and give people a website to wish for backwards compatible games to convince people it still has what it takes to compete in the console space.

Putting in the legwork to make these Transformers games available on the Xbox Store seems like a more compelling step in the right direction than you might have thought based on these results. Now for the Activision-published Spider-Man games that are also part of the 360 top ten, finding a way to bring them back from the dead may well be impossible due to the web-slinger's ongoing affinity with the PlayStation.