Microsoft Confirms The Amount Of Games That Will Be Backwards Compatible At Launch

Microsoft annouced today at their Xbox Gamescom conference the amount of games that will be backwards compatible ready for their November 2015 public. launch.

[slate91]

Just installed my first bc title gears 1 last night. I'm surprised by how easy and streamlined the process was. Didn't run into a single problem.

[DougLord]

Lucky... Rest of us have to wait till November.

[slate91]

I can inv you to preview if you want? whats your gt

[Kalebninja]

I don't see what's so "lucky" about getting to play a game that came out years ago.

[Ripsta7th]

@Kalibninja
Yet we will see articles about how uncharted collection is once it releases
Because you know, N4G

[Sitdown]

@kalebninja

It's probably because you don't want to, but if you need assistance in seeing, just ask and we will help out.

[Muzikguy]

@kaleb

I'm no fan of Microsoft or Xbox and even I thought that comment was in bad taste

[Farmassy]

I just need to know when I can play Shadowrun on my xbox one. One of the best games of last gen and it was so underrated

[Irishguy95]

Well kale, its certainly better that PAYING for it again. You know...

[bumnut]

Well said Irish Guy!

[DougLord]

Thanks. I'm Hyran

[slate91]

Just sent :)

[Browninator]

Hey, I'd appreciate it a lot if you could also invite me to the preview, I've been so bored lately, my gamertag is Tj Gold Live

[slate91]

Sent :)

[No Way]

If I could, could I get one, as well? :P
Kwasemoto.

:)

[76erz24]

It must be nice to be a preview member....

[jojo319]

I can invite you. Let me know by sending me a friend request. You can only invite friends. Gamer tag is Kickasstrophe

[hiawa23]

Yeah, it works quite nicely.

[OCEANGROWNKUSH]

@kalebninja not like they have anything else to play, rare replay? oh wait...

[kaizokuspy]

Remasters are great because they offer old games with better framers or graphical fidelity. Rare replay is great bc it gives those today a taste of what gaming meant to us who started then. However this BC thing to me just isnt worth it. It's cool on the surface, but if anyone asked me to play gears 1 or 2 today or any x360 title I own I'd say no thanks. I prefer remasters to BC. Idk, BC is great for those who want it, but I just will never utilize it on any console.

[LastNewtStandin]

@kaizokuspy

I see your points and have some of my own,
I never played gears judgement or just cause 2,

Back compat gives me both of those for free when I buy the more recent releases and there will no doubt be other games that i missed the last generation that I could now likely buy for a fraction of the cost.

Yes it's older generation games but true gamers play to experience fantastic games / stories etc and not just because its on the most recent tech.

The fact that these games are being bundled with new games is very smart, Some will buy the old DLC to make a little money for the devs but most will choose to experience these features completely free.

Also every games with gold freebie for xbox360 is confirmed to be backwards compatible increasing the amount of new (to me) games i can play for free.

And lets not forget I can play those games in co op & multiplayer with xbox360 gamers and use the 360 dashboard to talk to old friends etc.

This isn't just backwards compatible games, The whole console is virtually on my xbox one. Not even considering cross play with win10 and cross buy games its a huge amount of features for free.

What a time to be a gamer.

[Erik7357]

Amazinggggggggggg

[babadivad]

Yo, can you invite me as well. Wehttam Divad

[slate91]

Np just sent it :)

[blady_man]

U cand send me one too thanks!! Thall be great!!

[Angerfist]

gladbecker82 is my GT
Please invite and add me. Thank you very much.

[siphil]

I would very much appreciate an invite to to the preview if possible. gamertag is siphil82. thanks in advance :-)

[alanwake18]

Dude I hate to ask but if your feeling up to it I would kill to be a preview member. My gamer tag is greendayfan18

[KiwiViper85]

Is anyone else feeling overwhelmed by the thought of all these games, not enough time?

[Joel2211]

Would you be willing to invite me to the program? If so my Gamertag is Joel Arocho.

[edsmack]

Was this a disc based game or downloaded digital copy of the Gears of war game?

[LastNewtStandin]

It's both :)

If you own gears of war on disc then put it into your xbox one and it will download the digital version.

If you already own Gears 1 digitally then scroll to my games and apps on xbox one and the game will be listed as ready to download.

Currently you need to be a preview member, otherwise it's coming in November to everyone.

[GoPanthers999]

I had TS Cold War from GwG in 2012. Did not play it until recently on my X1, it works and plays great. Cannot wait for more!

Make sure to grab the good GwG titles, because most will probablly be backward compatible.

[KiwiViper85]

It was actually announced that all titles going forward will be backward compatible. So grab them all.

[IPremier]

hey mate. I doubt you will come back to this thread, but if you do can you invite me as well? My gamertag is: 'L P R E M L E R'

[we420]

Can you please inv me dude..my gt is: we420

Thanks

[lowkey10011]

Could you invite me to the preview?
Deathshandxx

[otherZinc]

@slate91,

You can also play multiplayer, I tested it out yesterday.

I'll play Campaign Co-op today.

[bbad]

Could you please invite me to the preview?
My gamer tag is Badr8

[Browninator]

I got the invite and now I'm enrolled, thanks man these next four weeks of summer holidays are going to be a lot more fun!

[Immorals]

Looking forward to playing through Alan wake, never got to finish it before I gave my 360 to a friend!

[Shuckylad]

Wish I was a friend of yours. Free consoles, nice.

[Immorals]

He had no consoles, I felt bad for him!

[XanderZane]

Yeah, I need to play through those games as well. I also want to play Halo Wars now as well. I have like zero space left on my XBox 360, so being able to play them on my XB1 that has 4TB of space is a plus for me.

[raWfodog]

There's no denying that BC can only be a positive. Even though I still have my 360, it will be convenient not having to switch it out whenever I want to catch up on older titles.

[elarcadia]

My Xbox 360 is going on being 8 years old, and Iknow eventually it will go out. It is so nice to know I will not have to buy another console to play the majority of my physical Xbox 360 library! Another plus in my book.

[ninsigma]

Especially when the whole gears series is free if you get the ultimate edition!!

[iTechHeads]

Most titles will neve be compatible though, mostly on 1st party games and 3rd party partnered titles such as Fallout 3. Sure its a nice feature but people completely overhype the future ignoring how limited it is.

[UnHoly_One]

Maybe because we have no way of knowing how limited it will be or won't be?

You're assuming the worst, which is fine, but there is no reason to believe you are correct.

I think you're going to end up surprised.

[KiwiViper85]

Did you see the list or publishers that have given consent? It wasn't a list of indie developers.

[Ravenor]

This being so different from the 360 BC, the number will at least be much larger and much more expansive than the 360 OG Xbox backwards compatibility. You're stating absolutes without knowing any details whatsoever. I'm also curious as to how this is being overhyped; It's free, It was unexpected and things like being offered 4 free games with Gears Remaster, 2 with Siege and F3 with F4 are great incentives for buying the XB1 version without holding back content for one platform or another.

[jrshankill]

I like that all future GWG on 360 will also be backwards compatible. Double the games!

[TotalSynthesisX]

Was hoping Reach would be available prior to October 27th so I could play all the Halo games in chronological order leading up to Halo 5's release. Oh well, at least I still have my 360.

[KiwiViper85]

I was trying the same thing but with just MCC, having only played 1, lucky me right?

Don't hate me, but I forced myself through 1 & 2, can't bring myself to boot up 3.

Is 3 where the series gets good? Or is Halo just not my thing? I just felt so bored while playing.

[TotalSynthesisX]

If you found the gameplay boring, then I can understand. The older Halos were fairly bare-bones from a gameplay perspective.

If it was the story that made you bored, well... I guess it's just not your thing. But hey, at least you tried it. Some people like to bash things they've never even tried *coughn4gcollectivelycough*

[Ravenor]

The older Halo's are truly a couple games caught within the limitations of the hardware and time. Halo 1/2 at the time of release were revelations (From a console perspective). The splitscreen, the campaign coop and with Halo 2 the MP party system was really ahead of its time.

Halo 3 is better than H1/H2 but if you're playing by yourself and nothing about Halo 1 or 2 caught you, I'd just duck out now.

[KiwiViper85]

Thanks for the rational advice Guys.

I've been wanting to ask this for a while, but feared being disagreed and bubbled down for trolling, haha.

I'm gonna keep MCC in my collection to at least give 3 a go. One day.

Thanks again.

[hiawa23]

Awesome news, although I still have my 360, so will continue playing on that but great news for those who don't, or just want to use the X1s features to play 360 games, plus your gamesaves also comes over thanks to the cloud, so it is easy to jump from X1 to 360 and never lose your place.

[Animal Mutha 76]

At this rate ill be able to pack the 360 up or send it upstairs as a bedroom console.

With dvr being added as well i guess they called it One with good reason.

[elarcadia]

It is most definitely earning the title of the "One". It is like the Neo of video game consoles!

[NeoGamer232]

The only disappointment I saw was when they showed the third party support and there was no Activision logo on the screen.

The relationship between Activision and Microsoft must really be sour now.

But all Activision does really well now is yearly Skylanders and CoD. No real innovation there so it isn't a big loss.

[iTechHeads]

I wrote an article about this a a while ago. You will never see older COD games playable on XB1 though B/C. It doesn't even have that much to do with Sonys partnership though. You won't see older FIFA games either......

Publishers want you to buy these yearly games NEW every single year not buy a $5 360 version of a used game at Gamestop.

[NeoGamer232]

I think that is a loss for them. Essentially BC has two appeals...

1) Nostalgia for gamers who played d loved the game

2) New gamers who play the new one and want to play the history of the franchise.

By not doing BC they are disappointing both sets of gamers and decreasing the value of their brands in gamer's minds.

[vinniects]

maybe I can get an invite to the preview program if anyone is kind. I was in it but i deleted the one month that you could not be in party chat with a friend that was not in , and did not know you could not get back in gamertag is RwB xVinsanity

[Youngindy21]

So many games last gen that I didn't get a chance to play. I am excited for BC because I sold my Xbox 360 in order to pay for my Xbox One.

[jrshankill]

Wise youngindy21 is wise

[WitWolfy]

Waiting hard on Witcher 2 to release. Cant wait!

[Piffgaming]

Great news! Xbots will finally have something to play now

[UnHoly_One]

Nice Trolling.

[Condemnedman]

Yep like all those blockbuster your be playing this year 😂

[thisgamer503]

But...but...but... Bloodbourne!!!! /s

[RyujiDanma]

did u really just make an account to say this?

[ArmrdChaos]

Pathetic people doing pathetic things...no surprises there.

[BillytheBarbarian]

Questions:

I still play the 360 regularly. If I play Gears 3 on X1 will I still be able to play my 360 one as well? Or will it only work via internet? I have all the Gears3 dlc on my 360 hdd too. Will it block it from using my 360 and only work on X1? Because from the sounds of it, you put the disc in the drive and it installs the Games on demand version, not really installing from my disc. It will probably know I already have the Game odemand one assigned to my gamertag because it was free last month. Can I system link and run both together with my 360? My son and I do system link multiplayer.

Just wondering how much "freedom" we have with our old games.

[LAWSON72]

No you can still play them on your 360

[BillytheBarbarian]

I wonder only because when I tried to do it with two 360s it would want me to transfer my gamertag. I just wonder if I can be logged in on both consoles with the same gamertag playing Gears 3 on demand on X1 and 360 at the same time.

I won't know until I try it out I guess.

If anyone has the BC trial beta code I'd love to try it out.

Like right now I'm on both. I'm playing my 360 and my son is on elderscrolls online. We're both on my same gamertag.

[Grown Folks Talk]

You can be logged into X1 & 360 at the same time with the same tag, but not 2 X1s or 2 360s at the same time. If you use the digital version, you can play on your X1 & 360 at the same time.

[Tedakin]

The coolest part is that every 360 GWG will be BC day 1. Also looks like all Halos and obviously all Gears games are coming. So in spite of remasters, MS is still giving you the originals, not making you buy the remasters. Good on, MS.

[RareNomad]

Hi Slate, any chance I could get an invite? my GT is rarenomad :)

[Jag-T1000]

Ok, if all Gears of War games can be backwards compatible, then all 360 games can be BC. These games have the best graphics the 360 can dish out. So everything else should be easy to port.

[dkp23]

Up to publishers. For gears case it's ms. For others, no guarantee.

[Jag-T1000]

Im talking emulation wise. What you are implying is that companies like Capcom, Konami, Square can decide if their games will be on the list of BC.

[M4DE_IN_W4LE5]

Im installing Gears of War on my 360 . Can anybody tell me if its normal to take just over an hour to reach 18% ? Why they cant stream from the disk while I play I will never know. Thanks in advance

[BillytheBarbarian]

Bluray drives aren't fast enough.

[M4DE_IN_W4LE5]

Im installing Gears of War on my Xbone I meant

[M4DE_IN_W4LE5]

ok not totally stream , more like half install and half stream , cos the 360 managed to stream without installing. Your telling me DVD players can stream faster than Blu ray?

[BillytheBarbarian]

Yeah, that's why we had those large installs on PS3s too.

[M4DE_IN_W4LE5]

Another thig does anybody have a link to what 360 games my Xbone will play?

[thisgamer503]

If you google "what 360 games my Xbone will play?" you will get your answer

[TheKingslayer]

Dope

[SatanicEyeJesus]

Best stuff presented by MS: BC and Rare Replay. Nice :)

[Stick357]

Anyone willing to give an invite for xbox preview program?

gamertag: GonaHavABadTime

[jojo319]

I will invite anybody that sends me a friend request. I don't monitor this forum. Gamer tag is Kickasstrophe. Also, keep in mind it takes MS a few days to approve sometimes.

[FaintlyThere]

I really don't see why this is such a great selling feature, I mean even in the article picture (which is the same Microsoft picture they are using to market the feature) you can see a few heavy hitter but the vast majority of those are being remade and the rest are arcade games which typically means they will come to your console anyways.

I also find it a bit strange when people ask about PS4 having b/c but no one wants to point out PS Now like it's some forgotten child, it's a shame really because PS Now allows gamers to access PS1, PS2 & PS3 titles. Yes it's a paid subscription service but that subscription is helping developers port previous titles to the newer console so their current resources can be used on newer games.

Now this is not to knock the Xbone as I do think it's great to finally play 360 games on the console but the way this feature has been executed leaves a lot to be desired. I mean most older games weren't that much space on the hard drive at least not in contrast to the current gen but you're telling me two years after console release they can only provide over 100 games? and those haven't even been able to be accessed yet? Well that just makes it feel like they are trying to see what little bits they can dangle in front of xbone owners to make them salivate. I mean how complicated could it be to transfer titles that you already have the information for? It's not as if the developers only knew about this console for the two years its been released, I think this is another feature Microsoft has poorly done.

But those are just my two cents

[Yukonsbud]

Could someone please invite me to the xbox preview?

My gamertag: Yukonsbud