Xbox 360 Emulation For Xbox One

[H222G981]

Thoughts?

Published on Jun 10, 2015

Well, the new generation of gaming got off to a rocky start for a number of reasons: First, the Xbox One was coming in off a very tumultuous summer of DRM. Next, the sales for the XB1 sparked and peaked early, and are now slowly climbing on the monthly charts. Thirdly, the PS4 and Xbox One both launched with less-than-stellar titles that saw them get butt-whipped by the Wii U in the Metacritic department. But the most egregious of crimes that the eighth-gen twins committed coming out of the box, was the lack of backwards compatibility. 

 

[*ScottmanXIII]

It's logical to upgrade if I can take my 360 library with me.

[Matt Bellamy]

Odd how the video you posted has nothing to do with the Xbox One Backwards compatibility announcement, as is about an actual emulator for the PC to run 360 games.

 

ANYWAY

 

As I have been thinking about it more... I am debating whether or not this will actually make any kind of real difference, EXCEPT for people who do not pay attention to the actual fine print of the announcement.

 

Lots of gamers will just hear "Xbox One can now play 360 games!" and finally think they should upgrade. This, is EXACTLY what Microsoft wants.

 

But in reality, at the start of it, only about 100 games will actually be available. More to come yes, on an unannounced schedule. So, I bet at least half if not more or the games I own, will work at the beginning of it. A lot of them will be newer games too, so that is a plus ( if people have a backlog of games to play)

 

But yay, backward compatibility.

 

So yeah, it could work out for them, but it might backfire a little bit, even though they have been forthright about the limitations of the backwards compatibility.

[*ScottmanXIII]

I'm only considering an upgrade following the FFVII announcement, I'd pretty much given up on the console Wars and was content to stick with my X360.

I'm going to wait till FFVII gets a release date and for which systems before deciding on a new choice of console.

With that you could say backwards compatibility is irrelevant, just seems logical if an upgrade is possible, I've got a lot of time to wait and see :-)