Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Discussion Thread

[HollyGamer]

the-pi-guy said:

vivster said:

The way I understood it was that you have to download the actual game and nothing but the license is loaded from the disc. That sounds to me that you're simply downloading a ported version.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to downplay this feature. As I said, kudos to MS for actually going the extra mile.

Depends what part of it is actually being downloaded.  A profile or a full game, seems like a ton of work to port all these games just for free backwards compatibility.  

actually it's not a rocket science, SONY did this on PSN with their PS2 and PS1 games for PS3. I also have a doubt how Power PC able to emulate perfectly on hardware and software level on Medicore spec like Jaguar.  If they can do emulation i bet it only emulate old games that came on Xbox 360 early first year. If they can do i bet PS4 able to do the same thing but with more dificulty, assuming Xbox One does the emulation on hardware and software level.