| vivster said: Having bought a game on previous gen and being able to download and play it for free on current gen. Sound familiar? Probably because Sony has been doing it from the start and it's called Cross Buy. The big difference? You can buy games on current gen and play them on previous gen. That's why it's just Cross Buy Lite on X1 :P Just wanted to get that off my chest. |
Actually it isn't that at all.
Cross-buy is the feature where a publisher allows a person to purchase a current game on an older platform, and get for free the version for the newer platform.
Playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One is not the same by any measure. You aren't getting a new version of the game. What you are getting when you download the game is a game wrapped in an emulator, exactly as it was with the Xbox 360. Nothing is upgraded or improved. The only features that change are the features of the OS, such as Game DVR. A Kinect for Xbox 360 game isn't going to work on the Xbox One, as an example. So while Skyrim could be made upgradable, the DLC that added Kinect support wouldn't.
So, I don't see how that's like Cross-Buy.
