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Xbox made a big splash last month by announcing that the backwards compatibility program was officially making its debut on PC, and a new leaked roadmap hints at what to expect from this in the months and years ahead.
The timeline has been shared by multiple people on social media, including The Verge's Tom Warren - you can see below how it also incorporates the disc-to-digital feature that has been heavily rumoured but yet to be announced.
To clarify, the timeline says that backwards compatibility's "early access" period for PC began in July and should receive a "full launch" in October when more original Xbox titles will presumably become available. The idea is then to provide a gradual rollout of Xbox 360 titles throughout 2027 and 2028.
We're particularly intrigued by the mention of "next-gen devices" rather than PC in the final bit of the timeline, which might suggest that Project Helix won't feature support for all Xbox 360 backwards compatible titles out of the box. Then again, perhaps it's just strange wording - we'll have to wait and see.
For what it's worth, The Verge says that developers will have a lot of control over this too:
"With 360 games, developers can opt into making them backward compatible, and they will have control over things like a game’s price and if it’s available on Game Pass."
The slide in the image above pretty much confirms everything that The Verge is saying here - it clearly mentions how devs and publishers are responsible for "decisions, not engineering", and that Microsoft will handle everything regarding the implementation of backwards compatibility on PC.
Does it mean that we could get brand-new additions to the BC program that have never even been backwards compatible on consoles before though? The leaked roadmap doesn't confirm this either way, but seems to suggest that if developers and publishers are happy to sign off on it, they could potentially re-release their games on Xbox.
Let's wait and see what happens in the months ahead, and we'll also be keeping a close eye out for more disc-to-digital details very soon - the document mentions that it was supposed to be rolled out for Xbox Insiders in July (as was seemingly teased at the time), but Tom Warren says it's since been pushed back slightly. Stay tuned!