Microsoft Alters Statement On Whether Xbox Series X Plays "All" Xbox One Games

This is awsome news, I have a huge backlog at the moment and the idea of being able to pop in any xbox one game in my series x makes it a day one buy for me..

For me it's a huge deal. I got an Xbox One the day Rare Replay, the compilation that started backwards compatible games, was announced. Backwards compatibility is a dream that comes true.

This is a huge deal for me. I love backwards compatibility!

No ambiguity to that statement unlike what’s coming out of Sony, awesome job Xbox. (Update) the change of wording doesn’t make me happy to be frank. Need to release a list of what it doesn’t play, Will no doubt be a short list.

Huge deal for me. Knowing that digital games I’ve purchased like Doom, RDR2 and Control will be playable on the Series X is a huge reason I’m getting one soon after launch.

I love not having to rebuy games or for that matter more controllers for when my sister wants to play to >.>

I can't understate how important backwards compatibility is. Games are culture and need to be preserved. Just like we have pretty much every major film release ever on DVD or Blu-ray, and pretty much every major literary work in print, we need games to be accessible to everyone at all times, whether it was released last year or in 1992. BC helps with legitimizing games as an art form, as opposed to toys, fads, etc. Love, love, love Microsoft's approach to the subject.

It's not a big deal for me, when I go into a new generation I go forward with new games, but keep my old games and consoles. However, it's good news for those that do enjoy it, although I won't say no to playing an enhanced Gears 5 👍

Will they carry on adding more Xbox and Xbox 360 games too once the Series X is out? Fingers crossed.

Looking forward to loading Lichdom Battlemage in under 1 minute. I hope. 😐

Probably due to games that required Kinect and ones that have been delisted. Just covering their butts, no big deal I'd say.

I tend to look more to the next/new games rather than replay old games so it will depend on what new games I have and what old games I have to finish. It would be great if some old 30fps games can run at 60fps but I think at best, they will run at their capped limit. Res may get a boost and loading too but I don't see the point in replaying a game just for that - especially those X enhanced games that may drop to 1800p or so. If they are unfinished, then maybe I will finish them but otherwise I will be more inclined to play new games...

@redd214
I'd agree it may not be a huge deal, but I hope MS is very clear about what games will not make the cut. I expect if it's just delisted games, or ones that require Kinect, that the list would be very short. Wouldn't hurt to put that on the website (when it's time) to let people know.

@Gamer83 I'm sure they'll be very transparent about it. They've been doing a GREAT job of clear communication the past few years.

Most XB1 games isn't good enough, I'm a lot less excited for Series X after this change in wording.

@Grumblevolcano
You really like to grumble, don't you? 😁

@Grumblevolcano they basically said thousands. From the wording is sounds like they haven’t been able to test all games but that they don’t necessarily not play. Basically before they confirm they want to check and that’s a lot of games to play through.

@mousieone
And something I didn't even think about until it was mentioned in this comment section is Kinect games. The way MS has distanced itself from that device I wouldn't be shocked if the Series X doesn't involve Kinect at all and if that's the case obviously those games that require it can't be played. Does suck people who like the Kinect, I get it from the business side but on the consumer side I could also understand disappointment from some.

@Gamer83 that’s a good point, most likely the bulk of the games that cant be played are Kinect based, that would make sense.

@mousieone @gingataisen My concern is that exceptions in the past have always ended up being peripheral games. So as my most played XB1 game is a peripheral game that is still being supported even today, if it's not playable on Series X I may as well just stick with just XB1 as stuff like Halo Infinite is crossgen.

Kinect is the no backwards compatibility exception I'd understand the most being lost to time as Microsoft kind of already did it with the XB1 revisions (S and X) as it required a hard to find adapter to work on those consoles.

Kinda interesting to follow this BC narrative over the the last few days. Cerny kinda fumbled and people misinterpreted it as "only 100 PS4 games BC on PS5". Then MS came out and said "ALL Xbox One games BC on Series X".

Now Sony has rectified their statement saying they expect most of the 4000+ PS4 to be playable on PS5, and MS has updated their statement saying the same as well. Obviously there are always going to be some weird games that won't work. But it's interesting how the two started out in a completely different situation two days ago, and now they're in the same boat.

Sony recently said exactly the same thing

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/03/ps5_backwards_compatibility_will_play_overwhelming_majority_of_all_ps4_games_improved_framerates_and_higher_resolutions_on_playstation_5

Sounds like both have a similar issue probably due to the change from HDD to SSD and thus they are making sure every game works before confirming things

Makes sense to me

@KratosMD It's weird that people spin that Cerny statement into something completely different though. I never understood it as ''only 100 games BC'' or whatever the narrative is. He was talking about boost mode, and how, of the 100 most popular games he tested, it seemed to work better than expected. They're testing the games, and more than 4000 will be playable on the PS5. I see no reason to believe this won't be at launch, because this will be native BC; same x86 architecture. Just like how Series X can run Xbox One games natively and I therefore expect that 99.9% of Xbox One games play from day one. OG Xbox and 360 are a different story, because that's emulation, something completely different from native BC.

It’s wild that ea would allow Madden 17 or fifa 16 to be playable on the Series X or PS5.

@Grumblevolcano well I can understand that. I think it’s more Kinect games and Toys to Life like Disney Infinity 3.0.

@Gamer83 yeah exactly

@Grumblevolcano Hard to find Kinect adapter? Well, the official one maybe, but there's still dozens of third party adapters available from Amazon as we speak:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GBGYHG9/ref=dp_cerb_3
https://www.amazon.com/Kinect-Adapter-Xbox-One-Windows/dp/B07GRXJ69H

This amazing backwards compatibility is really pulling me back to camp Microsoft after preferring PS4 to Xbone.