Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Discussion Thread

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HollyGamer said:

Max... said:

I don't think that will be possible on PS4, to be honest. The Cell is extremely complex and wasn't there a graphic that claimed that it's even more powerful than the CPU of PS4? Nah, I don't think PS4 will get it. And even beside of the technical aspect, that would hurt PS Now and Sony won't want that.

I guess MS is lucky that the CPU of 360 was much simpler. It's a great feature, I'm very much looking forward to this. I hope they add Red Dead Redemption at some point since I've never played that one.

Yeah for technical levels no one sure (heck even this announcement still shredded in mystery ) No one able to claim this in 2013. Even then many experts already has some observation and explain how difficult for x86 to emulate on software level even on high end PC spec, more so on console which is on medium spec. I am just assuming this kind of backward is the same with how PS2 and PS1 worked on PS3 PS Network. Because Phil Spencer said we have to download the games even using physical copies. 

We don't know exactly why you need to download them. Perhaps it's a restriction of the VM they use. Perhaps it doesn't work with discs or the drive is not good enough to stream DVD content but is more targeted at Bluray streaming. Either way, we could compare how big the games are on 360 and how big they turn out to be on Xbox One to make educated guesses if they recompile while we don't know if every game will ship with an additional binary for translation, of course.