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Xbox One Backward Compatibility is here. Now you can play a growing number of your Xbox 360 games on Xbox One at no
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Xbox One Backward Compatibility is available at no additional cost, so you don’t have to pay to play games you already own.
Keep your game saves, game add-ons, achievements, and Gamerscore.
Enjoy the advanced features of your Xbox One like Game DVR, Screenshots and Windows 10 streaming.
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Xbox One Backward Compatibility works with disc-based and digital games.
Xbox One Backward Compatibility is easy to use
The digital tiles that you own and are part of the Back Compat game catalog will automatically show up in the “Ready to Install” section on your Xbox One. For disc-based games that are a part of the Back Compat game catalog, insert the disc and the console will begin downloading the game to your hard drive. After the game has downloaded to your hard drive, users will still need to keep the game disc in the drive to play.
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Starting November 12, all future Games with Gold titles for Xbox 360 will be playable on Xbox One, giving you double the free games to play each month—two for Xbox One and two for Xbox 360. With Xbox One Backward Compatibility, play multiplayer with your friends no matter which console they’re on and enjoy Xbox 360 games with the advanced features of your Xbox One, including Game DVR, Screenshots, and in-home streaming to Windows 10. Download /GameswithGold or your Xbox 360 console.
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Xbox Live Gold is not required for Xbox One Backward Compatibility. However, it is required for any standard Xbox Live Gold feature like online multiplayer.
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Xbox One Backward Compatibility feature works with select Xbox 360 games, see /en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility. Kinect and accessories designed for Xbox 360, and games requiring those accessories, are not compatible with Xbox One consoles. Xbox Live and broadband internet required for initial download of game to console. Xbox Live Gold required for online multiplayer and cloud saves (sold separately). Beta preview program has limited functionality and only supports select Xbox 360 digital games.
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For DevelopersXbox 360 compatibility on Xbox One using cloud streaming too 'problematic' | Polygon
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"If you're backwards compatible, you're really backwards," former Xbox chief Don Mattrick — now running things at Zynga —
following the Xbox One’s troubled reveal in May, referring to the new console's inability to play games from the Xbox and Xbox 360. In a meeting in New York this week, Microsoft's Albert Penello didn't call the pursuit backwards, but he did concede that experiments with streaming solutions had proven too "problematic" to be rolled out to consumers.
In the months following Mattrick's statement, Microsoft has made great efforts to distance itself from that, and many other, errors in messaging. In September, Penello, senior director of product management and planning at Xbox, said that it
for the Xbox One to support earlier Xbox titles using the company's much-vaunted cloud server technology. "It could be more complicated things like rendering full games like a Gaikai and delivering it to the box," Penello told GameSpot, referring to Sony's still-unproven solution for prior-generation compatibility on PlayStation 4. "We just have to figure out how, over time, how much does that cost to deliver, how good is the experience."
Just a few weeks later, Halo 4 — presumably the last Halo game to be made for Xbox 360 — was seen running on a Windows PC and, more notably, a Windows Phone . The demo was billed as a prototype and a spokesperson for the company said, "The Microsoft Company Meeting is a great place to demonstrate many exciting possibilities, but we don't have any specific plans to share at this time."
"In the world of things I wish they had not shown at the Company Meeting because I knew I'd be asked about it later, put that at the top of my list," Penello told Polygon earlier this week at an Xbox One demo in New York. "That is a good example, in certain circumstances [the cloud streaming] worked really awesome."
"It's really cool and really problematic"
However, the problem, Penello explained, was that cloud streaming was simply too failure-prone to provide a realistic solution for most consumers.
"It's really cool and really problematic, all at the same time, insofar as it's really super cool if you happen to have the world's most awesome internet connection. It works way better than you'd expect it to," Penello said. "So managing quality of service, the tolerance people will have for it being crappy. Can you imagine, in this day and age, with the bad information around, and we can't control the quality of that experience and make sure it's good, or have to tell people they can't do it?"
Even without any intention of bringing the streaming compatibility option to the market, its mere existence at the Microsoft meeting four months after Mattrick's remarks show that not everyone at Xbox thinks backwards compatibility is "backwards" thinking. For Penello, the Halo 4 prototype showed a possible way forward, in some indeterminate future.
"It was a grand experiment, I know we did a lot of work behind it, and we said this is one of the things where the network just has to get better before we can do it," he said. "When that happens, you're going to have a really interesting conversation around that, can I actually run Xbox One games that way as well."
As for Sony's plans to use its Gaikai service to stream older PlayStation titles to the PS4, Penello said, "I'll be really interested to see how our friends in the Bay Area [at PlayStation] deal with this problem. But I can tell you, it's totally possible. We like it, we're fans of the cloud. We're not shy about that."
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Microsoft Reveals Backward Xbox 360 Compatibility, Halo 5, More at E3
by Fox Van Allen on June 16, 2015in , , ,
The video game industry&s major E3 expo kicked off on Monday in Los Angeles, California. The first major console company to announce its 2015-16 lineup was Microsoft, and while there was no earth-shattering console news, there is word of new backwards compatibility, a new luxury controller, Halo 5, Fallout 4 and more. Here&s everything you need to know about the features, accessories and games Microsoft has planned for the Xbox One in the near future.
Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility
The biggest surprise out of Microsoft&s E3 press conference is that Xbox 360 backwards compatibility is coming to the Xbox One later this year. If you&ve purchased Xbox 360 games on Xbox Live, you&ll soon be able to re-download them on your new machine. Games on disc will have to be downloaded to your system&s hard drive, and you&ll need to validate each play session by inserting the game disc into your Xbox One. There&s a big catch here, though: Only certain games will be backward compatible. Expect 100 at launch, with more to come. You can check out .
Xbox Elite Controller
Microsoft also announced the availability of the new Xbox Elite Controller. It&s the Rolls Royce of videogame pads & it has a rubberized diamond grip, interchangeable thumb sticks and paddles of different sizes. It&s expensive though. Expect to pay $149.99 for this top-of-the-line gamepad when it&s released this October. You can learn more about the .
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo, the popular military science fiction first-person shooter series, is once again coming to Xbox on October 27, 2015. The game, featuring the voice of Firefly actor Nathan Fillian, has an exciting new Warzone multiplayer mode that supports up to 24 players. You can check out the new-for-E3 trailer for
Gears of War 4
Gears of War fans were treated to news of Gears of War 4, a violent third-person sci-fi Xbox One shooter due out in the 2016 holiday season. That&s a long time off, so naturally, Microsoft is being stingy with details. But as you can see in the trailer below, the enemies this time around don&t appear to be members of the series& reptilian Locust Horde, and there&s no sight of series protagonist Marcus Fenix.
Forza Motorsport 6
Microsoft&s Forza sports car racing series is getting its sixth installment on September 15, 2015. The game features destructible environments and changing weather, and as you can see in the gameplay footage below, it&s never looked so beautiful driving through the rain.
includes 26 destinations, 450 cars, and supports a 24-car multiplayer.
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is the latest in the popular Tomb Raider survivor action adventure series, due out holiday 2015. In the game, you&ll once again play as heroine Lara Croft as she seeks the secret of immortality. The game is a Microsoft exclusive. You can check out the newly-released-at-E3 gameplay footage below.
Fans of the Fallout series were greeted with huge news earlier this month when it was announced that the long-awaited
sequel would finally hit later this year. This time, the apocalyptic RPG is set in Boston (home sweet home!). It features Minecraft-esque world building, where you can collect materials and use them to create shacks, guard towers and all sorts of fortifications for your in-game hometown. As a cool bonus feature, the game will come with a mobile Pip Boy app, and those who buy the collectors edition can get an actual physical Pip Boy for use with their smartphone. Fallout 4 is coming November 10, 2015 on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC, but Xbox One players get a special feature: the ability to use and install PC mods for the game.
Dark Souls III
Bandai Namco&s grim fantasy adventure series Dark Souls is returning for its third-and-final installment in early 2016. The RPG-style game features swordplay and magic, a large world to explore and an impending apocalypse that you&ll need to find a way to survive. Dark Souls III is taglined &&now only embers remain,& and will be available on Xbox One, Sony PS4 and PC in early 2016.
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Mass Effect is returning in holiday 2016 with a brand new game on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. Mass Effect: Andromeda is set many years after the conclusion of the original trilogy in an all-new galaxy with all-new characters. You can check out the early&Andromeda footage in the trailer below, and read more about the game on the .
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
South Park: The Stick of Truth may not have been the most action-packed game, but it had a fun story line that many fans of the series (myself included) enjoyed. Its sequel, , borrows from the Coon and Friends superhero story line of the TV show. You, as the &new kid,& will join Cartman (as The Coon), Kenny (as Mysterion), Mint Berry Crunch and all the other superheroes of South Park as they take on Butters (as in-over-his-head super villain Professor Chaos). Even Towlie even makes an appearance, because as fans of the series know, whenever you go swimming you should always bring a towel. The game is coming on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, and will likely be as inappropriate for young children as the TV series is.
is an eye-catching new game that Microsoft is calling a &run-and-gun platformer.& In it, characters Cuphead and Mugman have lost a bet with the devil, and are tasked with doing his bidding in an surprisingly vivid 1930s cartoon-style world. Everything in the game is hand drawn and inked, and it has an original jazz recording score. It&s incredibly unusual, and due out in 2016. Microsoft gave the world a first look at the game, an Xbox One exclusive, at E3.
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The fun and family-friendly Plants vs. Zombie series is back for another installment. This time, you take on the role of the zombies as they defend their Z-Tech factory against an invading plant menace. The game features 4-player zombie co-op gameplay, so the whole family can get in the action on this one.
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