NateTheHate is saying that the Xbox backward compatibility program is working to bring OG Xbox and Xbox 360 digital library playable on PC.

'I don't want to Promise thing but proof it'

This is exactly what would Proof her commitment.

This is actually some pretty massive changes! How many complaints or games not releasing on Xbox were due to how long or difficult the process was to just get started?

^ Awesome indeed, seems we also get a BC update soon (don't expect new bc list tho)..

Is now on xbox and I bought it right away!!

Hmmm a few things happening:

Gaming Copilot coming to Xbox consoles later this year: "[...]we will bring Gaming Copilot to the current-generation consoles, and we will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing", said Manager for Gaming AI at Xbox Sonali Yadav   (Credit Shinobi)

Xbox Announces Policy Changes To Treat Games More 'Fairly' On The Microsoft Store

"You won’t see the same bundle five times across New Releases  

Read more at; https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/03/xbox-announces-policy-changes-to-treat-games-more-fairly-on-the-microsoft-store

Also:

Xbox is retiring their physical Dev Kits Your PC is a dev kit. With a unified GDK, if you build on Windows 11, you’re building for Xbox. No more expensive, proprietary hardware needed. 

1. Ugh AI slop doesn't need to be anywhere near gaming.

2. That is an improvement. I hated going to the Xbox store and seeing the same games listed multiple times.

3. If this makes it easier and cheaper for developer to make games on Xbox and PC I am all for it.

Gaming Copilot actually has one pretty nice feature that I wouldn't call AI slop like the AI assistant (though if they bring back Cortana with Jen Taylor voice as one of the AI assistant options, I sure won't mind), Microsoft's ASR (Automatic Super Resolution). Unlike Sony's PSSR, which competes against other GPU based AI upscalers (DLSS, FSR, XeSS), it uses the NPU that AMD is putting into some of their CPU's now. This means it can be used in conjunction with DLSS, FSR, and XeSS on PC. While Series X will see no benefit from that since it has an older AMD CPU without an NPU, Project Helix does have an NPU built into it's CPU, meaning you will be able to run both ASR and FSR in conjunction with one another on Project Helix, ASR running on the AMD CPU-based NPU and FSR running on the AMD GPU. 

Here is ASR adding about 30% framerate to FH5 on the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme in Xbox Ally at a GDC presentation. Z2 Extreme has 50 TOPS of NPU performance, but that is a Zen 4 CPU, Project Helix is using Zen 6, it's CPU will have more TOPS than that, I believe MLiD said Project Helix has 110 TOPS on it's CPU-based NPU.

I forgot they even announced this

It was a plan to pay developers to release demos of upcoming games onto Gamepass, with exclusivity on those games once they released. It seems they decided to scrap it and go with the ID@Xbox Demo Events instead. 

Honestly, exclusive skins for MS owned IP's would be great.