Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Is A Bombshell

Microsoft promised us some surprises at E3, and it looks like they delivered. Phil Spencer dropped a bombshell right at the beginning of the conference by announcing backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. The company promises that Xbox 360 games will run perfectly on the Xbox One this holiday season, though it won’t be all games to start with. Whether or not it works perfectly is a giant question mark, but if it does this is a huge change.

[SolidAhmed]

it seems that MS is on the right track, and it is about time to buy a XboxOne.

[Trekster_Gamer]

Its been a great to own an XB1 for a long time now, this just adds a lot of fuel to the fire!

[stragomccloud]

Hmmm..... something like this could actually convince me to get an Xbone.

[Thatguy-310]

BC is a perk for any given platform because it makes the transition a lot easier. This is strictly aimed at current 360 owners. Sony has gained a lot of ground in the marketshare and a lot of them were past 360 owners so it's smart for Microsoft to actually introduce this.

[dale1]

so you can use your old 360 discs on the x1 then

[Lubu]

Sounds like just for verification of ownership. Spencer said you pop in the disc, and download the game from the marketplace. I assume every time you want to play it, you just pop in the disc foe verification, then the game will run off your hdd.

[ger2396]

Yes, but I think you still have to download the game to your Xbox 1 hard drive. If that's the case I'll just keep my 360, no need to take up space on xbox 1.

[MilkMan]

Yes, this was a megaton bomb. This was bigger news than Fallout 4. This E3 is turning out to be super sweet.

[guyman]

"This was bigger news than Fallout 4"

No, No it was not.

[MilkMan]

Oh I don't know. Fallout 4 is one game. I'm looking forward to this game very much, but in contrast I have over 5k (or more. I'm guessing) in backlog and about 5 years worth of game time (at least) to go through. My Xbox One was collecting dust while my 360 was still getting played. So this news to me is like mana from heaven, although I liked the Fallout 4 one very much. I'm sure in a pragmatic sense. I don't stand alone. Then again this is the internet.

[Aries83]

@dale1
Yeah, to download the game to XB1.

[greenlantern2814]

I have seen a lot of people saying this is the feature current 360 owners will upgrade. But I don't see it that way. People who just have a 360 can already play those games. However it is something that might make people who never had a 360 consider buying a XB1. Also only 18 games to start with worries me but time will tell how much support this gets from developers.

[dale1]

whats with the 18 games thing.This isn,t down to the developers to make them bc is it.The idea is great but the cost will put of the developers and publishers won,t it.

[greenlantern2814]

Yeah the developers have to at least agree to it and with a lot of developers making easy money on remastered it could be a problem.