Xbox One Backwards Compatibility: Watch The Glorious Original Mass Effect Running on the New Console

Just a couple days ago, Electronic Arts finally unveiled Mass Effect Andromeda, but what if you want to play the original? Xbox One preview members have another chance to do so thanks to the backwards compatibility feature, that is already available to them.

[dreadz74]

Man XB1 is killing it!!!

[RosweeSon]

You mean Xbox 360. As for if Sony announced it would be met by the same response... Meh! It's a bonus sure to be able to play your games from the last 10 years but surely if you've been playing them for the last 10 years you want to move on?! I know I do I retired my Xbox 360 after 9 years last Christmas and my PS3 is on the verge of being sold on once I finish off my digital backlog but seriously were 18 months into Next gen I want some games that push things on, I've spent the last 18 months playing last gen's classics as even tho I bought a ps4 and Wii U on day one I had the sense to know the best of the best games aren't gonna show up for 12-24 months, it's not rocket science.

[ravens52]

Agree. But there are some gem out there such as blood borne...I was gonna mention some mediocre / cross gen games, guess that wouldn't really count:/ I have 20 physical games and about 50 something ps+ games. Oh I think driveclub is one as well. But yea the rest are cross/mediocre. Is DA:I crossgen yes right? Anyway their are a few good games. Should still keep your ps3 tho for ur children or what have you, sold mine and not happy about it. Had a backlog on that as well.Aaaaaahhhh Gaaaaaammmmesss!!!

[ravens52]

Off the subject sorry. GO XBOX woot woooooot!

[UnHoly_One]

I like going back and replaying my favorite games.

I'm playing Fallout: New Vegas again right now. The Fallout 4 reveal made me want to get it out again.

After that, I might do Fallout 3 again, not sure.

It's not at all uncommon for me to do that with old games. I usually get out my favorites and replay them every couple years at least.

So I'm loving this. I will get to replay them without having to switch consoles, and have the option to record clips and such. It's my favorite announcement of the whole E3.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

"You mean Xbox 360. As for if Sony announced it would be met by the same response... Meh!"

No it wouldn't lol. I can see headlines of ppl saying

"Sony proves its more gamer friendly than MS"

"Sony once again Stomps on MS with BC"

"Sony is for the gamers, Not MS"

"Sony re-haunts MS anti gamer policies"

And no I don't need a crystal ball those headlines will guaranteed get written its super common sense and you know it. MS is further separating themselves from 2 years ago. The fans requested this feature it wasn't MS's idea.

[Professor_K]

Doubt it, sonys fanbase would blow it to heaven declare sony ultimate saints melt downt the internet and declare an early victory or some fanboy hype nonsense.

[700p]

Many people enjoy playing their old games. Being able to play them on the new console is freaking amazing.

[Letthewookiewin]

Their kinda not.

[parkesy78]

Lol

[slate91]

The same people hating on this FREE backwards compatibility are the same ones who were praising sony for old games they have to pay for lol

[christocolus]

well said. lol. kinda of ironic too. isn't it? No matter what anyone says imo this is an amazing feature to have. Glad MS is supporting this.Now my friends can put their 360's aside and move over to current gen.

[LexHazard79]

People say its not a system seller. Thats bull. Maybe not at this stage, but had they had this feature for launch more Xbox 360 gamers would have made the jump. I feel like its a great feature.

oh but I bought the new systems to play new games. Yeah thats well and true. But you know at some point you get the itch to do some retro gaming. Atleast Xbox gamers now have that option. Also now maybe the kid who didnt want to get a xbox one because he cant finish his backlog, guess what baby we got you covered this Holiday!

Its time to trade in them 360 go on black friday. Probably pay like $100 out of pocker for a bundle.

Great ft, and great games coming to Xbox One. I wish you PS only heads well with PSNow. Maybe they will lower the prices some to compensate.

[Genuine-User]

Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but who is it exactly that's hating on backwards compatibility?
As far as I'm concerned, BC is good news for consumers.
Sony should most definitely look into this.

[Neo_Zeed]

Nobody hates BC. It's just not a game changing win. Also MS track record for BC sucks.

[Julion0715]

It's crazy ppl are hating on this my fault I mean Sony fan camp hating on this when this is jus another option for gamers. It's a feature many this gen have ask for now it's here without a price tag and Sony fans hate it smh xbox one is killing only a blind fanboy will disagree. Plus plenty of new games good shit ms

[Bigpappy]

I know I'll be getting back my arcade games that I still might have rebought on X1 if they rereleast . Now I don't have too. Phil isn't making me rent games or rebut those I already own. Instead of them trying to get Sony's butt to stop ripping them off, they are focused on finding nagatives where there actually are none.

There is a good chance these games may even run better on the emulator

[Azzanation]

This is great news, I can now retire my 360, freeing up a power socket and room on my bench. A lot of people underestimate the importance of BC. This is such a great feature, not only does it allow you to play your old games but it also adds a giant boost to your gaming library. You can now purchase 2nd hand 360 games and play them on your X1 with no extra cost and dirt cheap game prices. Now the X1 looks a lot more appealing to the mass market.

Those saying its not a game changing, well it is, its a giant feature that helps sell hardware and also it could be the end of remasters for X1. Devs can now work on bigger and better projects instead of recycling there old games and reselling them at full price.

[MCTJim]

I dont have to watch this, I've been playing it :D

Disagrees??? are you kidding? How can you say I'm not playing it when I just did last night?

[ravens52]

No you didn't lol

[Klamba92]

Same here tired it out yesterday along with battleblock theater, runs smoothly more or less with some minor hiccups which i suspect will be sorted out by the public launch. Hoping for ME2 and ME3 to be available soon!

[Eterna1Ice]

I hope you meant "tried"?

[ravens52]

Jk lol I gave you an agree. The nerve of these people !
I agree to agree with everyone! No disagrees please;)

[Eterna1Ice]

Just for lulz

[Elit3Nick]

How does save storage work? I tried it earlier and it only gave me the option for cloud storage, it wouldn't accept the USB stick that I put in.

[Svinya]

Saves on the HD or cloud, just like the 360 did

[Elit3Nick]

Hmm, it didn't give me an option for my internal or my 2tb external

[Sayai jin]

@MCT, don't worry about the disagrees. The hate and denial is strong on this subject.

I'm playing it as well, but put it on bold to play the gears beta.

[Palitera]

Does the frame rate changes?

[totalrecoilzz]

so if you was to play cod black ops 2 or cod4 on xbone would you still get all the hackers?

[Mikefizzled]

Yes because you are playing the same multiplayer as them. Its literally the same game.

Neither of those games, however, are supported but both rate highly on the Xbox User Voice page.

[Svinya]

I've been playing COD4 for the last week and i think the hackers are gone. Haven't seen one. Gotta try World at War, too. That game was infested.

[FlameWater]

So is there going to be a PC comparison or is the game completely equal graphically?

[FlameWater]

Why does curtis92 always get flagged and have 2 bubbles?!?!

[KakashiHotake]

Xbox fans should be thanking Sony. Microsoft never had any intention on making the console backwards compatible. this is just there answer to Sony's PS Now service which is actually meant to be more of a slap in the face to Sony.

[gangsta_red]

If you go on the Xbox forums you would see that BC is I believe the number 2 most requested feature for the Xbox One.

MS listened to their fans and gave them what they asked for. Xbox fans should be thanking MS not Sony.

[KakashiHotake]

I'm just being honest. Almost every single change Microsoft has made to their console has been in response to PS4. But it doesn't really matter the reason as long as the fans are getting what they want.

[LexHazard79]

Yeah it was one of the most requested features, what are you typing about?

[brianunfried]

Don't know why people get so excited about backwards compatibility. I've had it on other consoles in the past and used it maybe once.

[FlameWater]

If I could play my PS3 games on a PS4, I would buy a PS4

[Grievous]

Why though? If you buy a PS4 you will still be able to play your PS3 games on your PS3? Looks to me you don't really need or want a PS4 anyway. You'd buy a PS4 to be play PS4 games.

Sony from the start said that there would be no backwards compatibility. Some people consider PS Now some form of backwards compatibility but that is a horseshit comparison. PS now is meant as a completely seperate service. For now in beta it offers a limited number of games but in the future it will offer the whole playstation catalogue. PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 (maybe even psp/vita) games on all sorts of devices (not just consoles).

[jay2]

PMSL! an hour to install 7GB! MS can keep BC if they want to take that long just to install it. Just like the hard drive, sony got it right in the PS3 days, it's just ashame they didnt keep full BC but I still have the PS3 (and 360) anway,

[turdburgler1080]

Downloading times vary depending on connection speed obviously. I could download that in ten minutes or less.

@2paclives

Over a 100 by this holiday season. Nice try $#!@ing on the parade but back to paying for games you already own.

[2paclives]

I know I dont speak alone when I say the backwards compat is nothing to jump for joy about. Did you see the list of games? uh, okay, cool.

[starbuck]

The list of games are for the preview it's not been released yet to the public. Meant to be 100 by the holidays

[2paclives]

yes! ps3 has far better games to play than 360

[lemoncake]

This was such a great announcement at the perfect time, the fact it works perfectly with xbox to pc streaming takes it to a completly new level. Now you can stream your old 360 games to any room and on any windows 10 device you have be it tablet like surface pro, pc or miracast from tab to tv or htpc. No stupid over inflated rental fees, you just use what you already own or go and raid the bargain bins. I have been playing a few games and it's amazing, plus you get all those next gen benefits like recording clips.

[Eterna1Ice]

Wanna see a comparison video? https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Professor_K]

interesting, id never imagine the loading times would be alot faster on the xboxone, definitely worth it in my book

[Antifan]

Seriously, Sony fans everywhere needs to tell Sony to implement this feature. There's no way I'm paying $20 a month to stream, or $40 for a remaster when the competition has it free. Flood the forums, twitter, whatever way possible. #NoPayForReplay #DownWithRemasters. lolol

[RiPPn]

Great feature.. I have actually played my Xbox One more the last 48 hours than possibly the entire time I've owned it if you don't count it as a TV passthrough.. however it still is only going to be an exclusives machine for me so nothing changes there.

[Tesal]

I am happy to see MS did that and I hope they will bring support to even old Xbox games digital or discs.

I hope Sony will do the same with such a move and allow for Both PS Now and Backward for PS3/PS2/PS1 games digital and "discs if they can"

[Tedakin]

I played Mass Effect on Xbox One right after the conference. Yup works perfectly.

Now give me your nonsensical disagrees.

[u-bEttA-rUn]

Sooooo let me get this straight last holiday season they made your trade in your Xbox 360 for Xbox1
and all of your games for $40 store credit and this holiday they're going to make yall go and rebuy those same games for $30 apiece... Ctfu

I don't care what you all say PlayStation now allows you to stream video games to your TV even if you don't have a system... and also to your phone and your tablet anytime anywhere...
so is my Playstation 3 and order 4 dies I will still be able to play the games with no system...

congratulations to Microsoftand GameStop lol this is a smart movebut please don't downplay Sony

[pandehz]

Xbox 360 downloadable games also count

Its like steam for example, I want my steam games to stay even if my laptop dies and I buy a new one.]] same way the licenses remain, the discs well, if ppl traded in then well they traded it in. That's why its called trade, traded in for something else.

[starbuck]

Hope to God they implement DLC too as I've spent a small fortune over the 360s lifespan on add ons and DLC

[pandehz]

This is a good thing. It seems theres no place lately for good things in the world.

Well ok then remaster everything.

[JasonKCK]

Nice, the texture pop in is pretty much gone on the X1.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I was wondering if performance would be improved. I recall Mass Effect running pretty rough on the 360 when it came out.

[jwillj2k4]

Comparing this to PSNow is a comparison of apples and oranges. With this feature, MS has a vertical solution for example: if you happen to have 360 games, you can play them on your x1 for free.

Sony has a horizontal solution for example: it doesn't matter what you have / don't have, you can access it all for a fee.

Its a cool feature, but in the end its really a tactical move by Microsoft to get get more legacy gamers, vs Sony's strategic move to get everyone (including MS legacy gamers via Samsung tv / PSNow integration).

[assdan]

Here's my opinion on backwards compatibility. Is it a nice feature? Of course, but it shouldn't sell consoles. It's a good perk for if you already own the console, but if that's what pushes you to buy a new console, you're not gaming right.

[CantBeStopped]

If playing old games is your thing then great but I'd rather play glorious new games on my new console.

[feraldrgn]

BC in a form of DRM:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/20...

“It’s designed to be very simple: you stick the disc in, you DOWNLOAD THE GAME and then you’re ready to play it.”

It's not the same as DS/3DS or PS2/Fat PS3 backwards compatability.

[feraldrgn]

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http://tinyurl.com/p2x3yla

[NeoGamer232]

I played Geometry Wars yesterday. I thought the BC was great in that game. I know it doesn't really tax the system, but I was still impressed how good it is. I hope every game gets BC. Then, I will throw all my 360's away.

[Julion0715]

MS did what the fans been asking for with this BC feature and the new dashboard with cortana then the games they have coming this holiday on top of the gears beta come on now Sony fans let's be honest ms killed it not to mention the smaller titles announced plus taking games out for gamescom. I never doubted ms but I'm very impressed