are you sure its backwards compatibility? sounds like they are just porting games to xbox one x
It's an actual backwards compat.
The Xbox 360 backcompat works by emulating a 360 and then playing the 360 game on that.
Presumably the Original Xbox will also be emulated on the Xbox One also.
They do have to do some work on the games though to get them working, which is why not all 360 games are currently backwards compatible and they're working through a backlist of them to build a library of them.
Hopefully the fact that Original Xbox games were never tied into Microsoft Points means it will be cleaner to buy them from the digital store.
When you browse back-compat 360 games you can't see the price at a glance, and instead have to wait for the system to convert from Microsoft Points to real currency. By all accounts the 360 market system is a real mess behind the scenes and they were never able to cleanly remove the Microsoft Points system.
there were a few things showed that i look forward too, all conveniently coming to windows 10 store and not xbox exclusively
I do like the fact that Microsoft are embracing the Play Anywhere program.
It's surprising it took so long for a PC/Console/Phone company to decide to make all their stuff completely compatible, and it's great that they realised people don't want to buy the same game twice.
It's a shame other console companies don't have their own PC gaming areas, because there are plenty of Playstation exclusives I would definitely play on PC but won't shell out on another console for.
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