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Azzanation said:

Correct, and if they made a Mini Xbox it will play less than 5% of the Xbox library since these minis only have 10 to 20 games built in and being a modern system, id expect 10 games for a mini Xbox or PS2. So you are better off just playing OG Xbox games off the X1 BC.

Or they could put games that aren't BC on the mini console... Like I said less than 5%. (3.9% to be exact) of Original Xbox games work on the Xbox One. - There is still another 96.1% of the Original Xbox Library that can be chosen from and dropped in an Original Xbox Classic.

Same could be said about the SNES Classic, lots of those games were re-released on the Wii/WiiU/3DS and so on... But that didn't decrease how damn awesome the little SNES Classic was.

Azzanation said:

Have they stopped supporting BC? I thought they only stopped temporary due to there focus on the Scarlett?

The only statement we have had from Microsoft in this regard is that they are abandoning all backwards compatibility efforts on the Xbox One (Xbox 360 Backwards compatible with the Original Xbox was abandoned years ago) in order to ensure that all the Original Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox One games that work on the Xbox One will work on Scarlett.

Obviously Microsoft is still patching/updating the Backwards compatible games on Xbox One currently though and that will likely continue through with Scarlett... But as far as more games for the Xbox One. That scheme is well and truly over now... Which was expected I suppose.

Personally if you prefer Original Xbox+Xbox 360 games... You are better off just getting an Xbox 360 over the Xbox One to be honest. - You get almost 4x more Xbox 360 games, you get 11.2x more Original Xbox games supported, it's a no brainer really... Plus Xbox 360 consoles are dirt cheap pre-owned these days.




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