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Pemalite said:
Mr Puggsly said:

The 8th gen felt like gen 7.5 in many ways. Meanwhile BC is highly requested and perhaps more popular than ever. Console generations aren't new, but maybe people don't case as much per se. Especially when 7th gen games have done great on 8th gen.

Backwards Compatibility has been a shining point for the Xbox One platform as a whole, it's not just breathing new life into old games, but Microsoft is also putting those older games up for sale in their Xbox One digital distribution store, so those titles continue to accrue sales.

Also means that the Xbox 360's Xbox Live is likely to stick around just that little bit longer.

It isn't a perfect scheme, some games were unplayable when released on the scheme, like Halo: Reach.
And the scheme has been canned so Microsoft can focus on Next-Gen.
And further still... Doesn't support the full Xbox or Xbox 360 games library, nor will it, there are even exclusives with expired license which will never be playable.

Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, but I wouldn't be surprised if more OG Xbox and 360 games get added in the future.

As you said they monetize old games so its not just fan service. Also, the OG Xbox content added to X1 was the same emulator they did for 360. It seemingly just works better via brute force. So clearly the BC team could come back and add 6th and 7th gen games later.

Halo Reach was playable when it launched on BC, it just had bad frame pacing. The emulator improved greatly over time.

I suspect the BC additions have stopped primarily to make sure everything is supported. I am thinking work is being done to boost resolutions in all 360 content. DF entertained the idea of boosting resolutions in X1 content, which would be huge news, but I would bet on it.

While BC doesn't support everything on older consoles, adding notable content is most important. There is still many solid OG Xbox and 360 games they could add without licensing being a problem. I did a pretty thorough list on this very topic.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8945343

Last edited by Mr Puggsly - on 28 February 2020

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