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Dallinor on 01 June 2020
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Mr Puggsly said:
DonFerrari said:

I remember a clear new from Phil or someone of that level saying they had put a stop on launching new BC titles while they were working on Series X, I think it was Scarlet the codename? So with the XSX being near release they will probably add many more og xbox and x360 titles on the system while keeping almost 100% X1 also BC for XSX. All of that with automatic improvements so less burden on the team with some improvement for the user, even though BC doesn't bring many customers and I usually only play new titles this is a solid implementation.

In 2016 Phil claimed 50% of users used BC. Given it will be available at launch, I bet the percentage of people that use BC on PS5 and Series X will be much higher than that.

I don't get why people keep saying BC doesn't bring many customers or any variation of that thought. Its a feature people want and many will use it, that's all I care about.

Yeah roughly 50% had used it, but the total hours clocked in were in the region of 30 hours per gamer. Meanwhile the games on the ID@xbox program saw 4 times as many hours played than BC. The Ars Technica survey showed only 1.5% of a million xbox gamers over the course of 5 months used the feature. 11 times as many used Youtube.

Hard to draw any meaningful stats from it. Particularly as we don't know what games, or how many, were being played either. It could have been a select few titles with the overwhelming majority of hours.

It is certainly a selling point for Xbox though. They're not making a commitment to it for no reason. It may be the case that it's worth more as marketing because it helps to distinguish them from the competition, than as an actual function.