Rockstar Games Was The Last Major Publisher To Allow A Game To Be Backwards Compatible On Xbox One

ThisGenGaming writes, "Possibly one of the most loved games from the last generation has been announced for a Backwards Compatibility release earlier this week.This adds Rockstar to the list of major developers who are releasing their most popular and heavily demanded games to the Xbox backwards compatibility catalogue, alongside 2K, Bethesda and Ubisoft to name a few."

[sammarshall102]

BC is truly one of the best features for me especially since I sold my Xbox360

[lxtrxi]

Hopefully Sony see how successful it is and scrap their PlayStation Now service for something similar - there's no comparable features that make PS Now even close to a competitor for BC.

[NotAvailable]

Psnow is great, and since its a paid service I'm sure the money it makes is leagues beyond BC on xbone. Getting instant access to hundreds of games for $15 a month is fantastic.

[Thatguy-310]

Ps now is not an alternative to BC. How can you guys not get that?

[Kingthrash360]

Xbox one has BC and ps4 doesn't.
Cool.
It's so over blown though. I think its sad that the best thing on xbo is 360 games. I wish xbo had a steady amount of xbo games instead of a steady amount of 360 games I beat long ago.
Don't get me wrong, I like it and it's a great feature ....but I'd rather play xbo games.....since that's rare I guess people are excited to play this very huge and long game again. I loved rdr...it's a classic, but fuck I beat it already...don't want to beat old games on my new, soon to be obsolete hardware.

[ElementX]

I really don't think they can emulate very easily because PS3 had the Cell processor which was a different architecture.

[Pancit_Canton]

@lxtrxi

You truly are clueless on how the PSNOW works. It works on many devices like Smart TV, Blu-ray, Smartphone, Tablet and PC. It's not limited to PS3, PSVita and PS4. I think PlayStation are more unified than the Xbone and W10 could ever achieve.

[ninsigma]

Why scrap PSNow when it isn't any sort of BC?? It's not supposed to be BC. Think of it like this, MS are currently turning xbox into a service where their games are available on a common store between windows 10 and xbox branded devices. PSNow is also a service that is available across all PS devices starting from PS3 onwards as well as TVs and phones etc. I think it's about time people actually understand that.

Edit:
@commentator
Didn't know getting xbox games on pc was free....
Also didn't say anything about xb1 pc.

[Liqu1d]

That's because PS Now isn't a competitor to BC, it's a cloud gaming service.

[TheCommentator]

Ninsigma, why are you trying to compare a paid service like PS Now to TWO free services in XB1 BC and the unification of console, PC, phones, and tablets? It really doesn't work that well unless you were trying to make PS Now look that much worse, in which case I apologize for misunderstanding. PS Now is simply awful with its high priced rentals, missing game modes, bad compression, poor quality audio, lack of voice chat and innumerable other conscessions and omissions form the original game releases.

[Aenea]

PS Now is not the same as BC, totally different market...

[donthate]

Pretty much, PS Now is pretty cr@ppy. There is a reason why it is pretty much rejected everywhere and nobody really uses it.

This BC though for XB1 is only going to get better with Xbox Scorpio next year so this is a huge win. I'm hoping for more games though!

Wouldn't surprise me if more people played BC games on XB1 than people actually using PS Now!

[DialgaMarine]

PS Now is potentially the Netflix of gaming. No chance in hell Sony will ever scrap the concept. They're gonna let it grow until they can expand it to other platforms.

[rainslacker]

I don't think PSNow is trying to be a BC alternative, nor do I think Sony is trying to market or use it as such. PS2 classics I can see as such a thing, but that's pretty limited, and not even BC, but rather rereleasing emulated games.

PSNow is good for what it is. It works well for the most part, and is handy for those that want to use the service I imagine.

Beyond that, I wouldn't mind if Sony does do something to counter MS BC solution, even if it's done in the same way. Not sure they could do it for PS3 games due to the CELL, as the CELL is still extremely hard to emulate since it used specialized processes compared to the 360's RISC chip, but there is obviously no reason that PS2 emulation couldn't be offered(because it is through PS2 classics), and PS1 emulation should be perfectly capable on the CPU/GPU's that the PS4 uses, as less powerful PC's can do it fine with the OS overhead that Windows brings to the apps themselves.

@Notavaialble

I wouldn't discount how much money MS makes off it's BC solution. I'm sure they sell a lot of software from the 360 era when these games release. It's good for the publishers and the players because they have access. For the most part, I'd imagine most people that actually use the service do not own the original games anymore. Publishers are willing to let those that do play the game in the hopes of bringing in more revenue, which MS takes a cut on.

PSNow may bring in more revenue overall, although that's speculation, but I'm sure MS isn't upset with what they're making off their solution.

@donthate

What source do you have that people aren't using it? Most hardcore gamers don't seem that interested in it, but given that it seems to be cropping up everywhere on numerous devices, it's obviously being used by people who don't care what we have to say about it.

I can't speak on how they feel about it, but would Sony still be pushing the service, adding more games to the subscription service each month, and actively promoting it on their TV's as well as other devices if it was doing that poorly?

PSNow isn't for everyone. It's more for the people that don't own PS branded devices. But I know several people who subscribe to the service, and I've seen people using the app in demonstrations at the stores which sell such devices and seeming to like it just fine. It's available to PS owners to use if they so choose, but those PS devices are actually the place they aren't promoted as much, because it's primary target is a different market.

"Wouldn't surprise me if more people played BC games on XB1 than people actually using PS Now!"

It'd surprise me given how more publishers are offering up their games on PSNow than are offering up BC on the X1. Among our community here, I'd say more people probably are into the BC, but PSNow isn't really something I feel Sony is pushing to hard on the hardcore.

[TheUndertaker85]

The problem becomes if they do so how many "exclusive" features of remasters become redundant? Streaming, transferable saves, aspects of photos & video clips, then with Neo being around the corner up scaling?

Then games like the Uncharted Collection would be missing features the PS4 version doesn't have like multiplayer. Why would users then buy these remasters only to be missing features?

[Aenea]

I think you're one of the few though, according to MS they logged 100 million hours of people playing BC titles across all X1 owners.

20 million X1 owners, hmm, that means every X1 owner played a whopping 5 hours! That is totally not that much and doesn't really show off how popular it is, in fact, to me it does the opposite.

Sure, not everyone uses it, say only half uses it? That's 10 hours per person that likes it. Ehmm, can't even finish a game in that time, so let's say you played 50 hours, that's only 10% of all X1 users, maybe 2 or 3 games. Hmm, still not that impressive...

[sammarshall102]

100,000,000 hours played on BC games is great no matter how you look at it

[kaizokuspy]

@sammershall it's not great when you consider those hours are spent on last gen titles due to not enough new content for current gen owners.

[Aenea]

@kaizo
Nah, that's nonsense, the X1 has mostly the same games as the PS4, there's plenty new games to play

@sammarshall
It's an impressive looking number until you start to think about it, then it suddenly is not. But I do agree BC is great, wish I had it on my PS4, tho I don't think I would be using it much, still have my PS3 and that is collecting dust too, way too much stuff to play and more incoming rest of the year!

[EazyC]

Misleading article title, makes it sound like R* was the FINAL publisher to allow this, which is not the case.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Has anyone got red dead multiplayer working? I've been loading free roam for 25 minutes..

[mkis007]

I wonder if this means the remaster rumor isnt true. I will be annoyed if I dont get a remaster.

[PutridPlop]

Bought RDR playing through it now on XB1. Played it first on PS3 then twice on 360, one of the best games I eve played.

[ScorpiusX]

Nicce

[Father Murder X]

Now I just want Fight Night Champion and I will be happy.