Microsoft’s E3 conference yesterday saw the firm announce great news for anyone invested in the Xbox console system; forthcoming Xbox One backward compatibility will allow the console to run Xbox 360 games.
The feature, which is expected to begin an international roll-out towards the end of the year will enable audiences to revisit their favourite 360 games on Microsoft’s current-gen console.
While Xbox 360 discs will not play natively on the Xbox One, inserting one into the console will trigger the download of a compatible game file that can run on the Xbox One system. Hence, while those specific discs won’t be needed to play a game on the Xbox One, it will be important to keep them handy.
Titles downloaded digitally on the 360 will also be available on the Xbox One once they are added to the backward compatibility list, and achievements, in-game progress, and saves will port automatically to an Xbox One over the air.
Microsoft have also released a new backward compatibility on the Xbox One help page, which allows users to vote on which 360 title they’d like next to see added to the Xbox One. While Microsoft isn’t compelled to add whatever title receives the most votes, such suggestions will guide the firm in delivering new (or, in this case, old) content.
Microsoft have also released a list of the first 360 titles to be added to the Xbox One which include a large amount of arcade games helmed by the 2007 hit Mass Effect. The list includes:
- A Kingdom for Keflings
- A World of Keflings
- Alien Hominid HD
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Banjo-Tooie
- BattleBlock Theater
- Defense Grid
- Geometry Wars Evolved
- Hexic HD
- Jetpac Refuelled
- Kameo
- Mass Effect
- N+
- Perfect Dark
- Perfect Dark Zero
- Small Arms
- Super Meat Boy
- Toy Soldiers
- Toy Soldiers: Cold War
- Viva Piñata
- Viva Piñata: TIP
- Zuma
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