Tachikoma said:
Shackkobe said:
Fact #1: The Xbox One is not "natively" backwards compatible with the Xbox 360.
If it was, you would be able to stick a disk in and play or download your current 360 game and play. You cant.
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in order to make it work the executables need to be modified a little to properly hook in to the hardware, in order to modify a game they need permission/licensing from the content owner, no license, no modification.
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Fact #2: The Xbox One will never be "natively" backwards compatible with the Xbox 360.
Why? The Xbox One and Xbox 360 have irreconcilable hardware differences and the Xbox One is simply not powerful enough to run the 360 games via emulation.
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Native would require physical xbox 360 hardware onboard.
The Xbox One however, is powerful enough to emulate the 360 when its primary executables been modified to redirect gpu, api and ui hooks to the xbox one system, so this "fact" is untrue.
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Fact #3: Some Xbox 360 games are being ported over to the Xbox One and these ports are what Microsoft uses to claim backwards compatibility.
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As illustrated above, the process requires modification to core files to properly work, this isn't porting, this is reconfiguration, the base system is still being emulated to match the original hardware, so again, this "fact" is untrue.
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Fact #4: Some Xbox 360 games will never be included in this list.
Why? Each game needs to be ported individually and the host of bugs and performance optimizations needed to make the game work on Xbox One will overwhelm Microsoft engineers. Therefore, only select games will become "backwards compatible".
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Each game needs to have the content owners permission and licensing to allow Microsoft to modify and redistribute a modifled and packed version of the game, again it is not being ported, its being emulated, backwards compatibility does not require universal support, and theyre not lying by saying that theyre introducing backwards compatibility, you are still able to run the supported games that you already own, on the new system, at no additional cost.
Some games use platform tricks to achieve certain effects, in these cases they would not work even with modification because the hacks and tricks used are so edeeply woven in with the game that the emulator cannot possibly accomodate it.
However, the fact that some games cannot be played disproves your "fact" about the games being ports, if they were genuinely porting the games theres no technical reason why some titles could never be ported.
You have at best opinons here, please don't pass them
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