By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Microsoft - Xbox One owners have played over 500 million hours of backward compatible games

Snoopy on 07 June 2017

Of course backwards compatibility is used a lot. Look how Blackops 2 got in the charts.



Around the Network
Veknoid_Outcast on 07 June 2017

I love it. It would be awesome if every 360 game became backward compatible with XOne.



jason1637 on 07 June 2017



Jranation on 07 June 2017

Excellent news!



Pocky Lover Boy! 

pokoko on 07 June 2017
SvennoJ said:

Is that lifetime running total since BC came out?

It still doesn't negate the snapshot of ars technica over a period of 5 months.

https://www.vg247.com/2017/01/05/microsoft-says-xbox-live-engagement-reached-an-all-time-high-of-3-9-billion-hours-in-2016/
During November and December 2016 Xbox Live engagement reached an “all-time high” with 3.9 billion hours spent using the service. Xbox One owners spent 265 million hours playing Xbox 360 games in 2016 via Xbox One Backward Compatibility

Now I guess during the last 2 months of the year the system is played more than the rest of the year, so lets take a very conservative estimate of average 1 billion xbl hours per month, so total for 2016 would be something like 14 billion hours. 265 million out of 14 billion = 1.9% Extrapolate the 1.95 billion hours per month and it's 1.1%

So time spent on XBox BC is between 1.1% and 1.9%

Yet the 'good' thing is, it's growing, not diminishing. Another 235 million hours for the first half of 2017.
Good is relative ofcourse, more time spend on old games, less revenue made. It's all borderline insignificant anyway, 2%, 3%, tiny piece of the pie.

When you break it down to the fact that many of those hours seem to belong to CoD titles--presumably multi-player--then it looks even less significant to the average Xbox One user, since I would assume that a few of those Black Ops fanatics account for a disproportionate share.  



Around the Network
NATO on 07 June 2017

How much of that was spent downloading the game data for the emulated version rather than playing it directly of the disk.



Signalstar on 07 June 2017

I don't understand why anyone would try to argue that BC is a useless or unwanted creature.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gWECYYOSo

Please Watch/Share this video so it gets shown in Hollywood.

SuperBott on 07 June 2017

IMO XO BC > PS now



darkenergy on 07 June 2017

Backwards compatible will now increase thanks to Black Ops 2. It even was #10 as the best selling game on the April NPD charts.



Proud to be a Californian.

Pemalite on 07 June 2017
SuperBott said:
IMO XO BC > PS now

I think that's just the general consensus now. Not just your opinion.

Microsoft does need to step it up a little and roll out more Backwards Compatible titles faster and possibly look at emulating the original Xbox library as well.




www.youtube.com/@Pemalite