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Do we know if they're all playable through remote play as well?

At the moment we can only stream Xbox One games but it'd be awesome if that extended to the whole library.

Seems unnecessary anyway imo and like @Senua said I don't know why it keeps getting put to them.

Once they bring xCloud to other platforms such as iOS, PC and the Xbox consoles themselves, I'm sure it won't be too long after when we'll start to get the streaming stick, tv apps etc.

Not sure how I feel about how reflective the PS5 seems to be as well.

Yeeessh, the PS5 certainly stands out.

Not surprising or a problem imo

Yeah I like this a lot. Gives me flashbacks to the 360 days

What happened to the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire game that was coming out?

Needed more Conker.

They need to get someone else to do it then, and they're in danger of missing the boat if they wait too long.

Blinx!

They still need to add Blinx 2 to back compat so I'm loving that the title seems to be getting a few mentions lately.

Get it done MS!

The comments here 😂

I don't agree with him either here though. Most (if not all?) Xbox games come to PC as well now anyway so they're already built to scale on different hardware.

Also this isn't a new issue either as already mentioned with the PS4 Pro and One X not seeming to cause many problems.

This is the first year in forever that I'm really not interested in the new release.

I played a bit via the trial through EA Play but other than that I won't be buying it unless I get the itch later in the year.

It feels fine but the lack of progress has finally got to me I think. I'm hoping for a proper next gen version next year but don't hold out a great deal of optimism.

I have 8.

3 OGs (1 black and 2 clear ones).
3 360s (two dead ones and one that used to be my cousin's)
And I've currently got One X and an S.

I've got a Series X & S ordered so that'll be 10 Xbox consoles by the end of the year!

Awesome. Excited for this one

I trust them here. We've come a long way since the 360 era and I'm still impressed with how quiet the One X is today.

This is the final piece of the puzzle for me (aside from individual game releases)

All 3 of these are decent tbf. Would be cool if they added these to back compat someday.

Surely there has to be a Banjo-Threeie in the works? Right?!

I never really played much of the first 2. 4 is probably the best overall but I spent a lot more time in 3 so voted for that

Mafia: Definitive Edition!

Awesome. This is about as good as we could've hoped I think

@Menchi awesome, here's hoping. Cheers

@Menchi yeah I did hear that actually, do you know if it works between different consoles as well?

Eeep!

Possibly in the future at a lower price. I'll just juggle games for now.

Hopefully a regular hard drive still works for storage and I can just transfer over what I need when I need it rather than redownloading.

From what I can see there are still loads of the Series S still around. Looks like the X is way more popular from initial launch

I got a Series S on Amazon early this morning.

Was gonna try to get an X via All Access but by the time I was able to check it appears to be gone for now.

I'm not too fussed. I'll use the Series S on a smaller 1080p TV anyway and will probably get an X next year for my main setup

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn. That's a big move alright!

I'm super hyped for the Mafia remake! I'm not expecting it to get 10/10s everywhere and be amazing, but I am excited to experience such a great story all over again.

I'm thinking of getting the X via All Access and then possibly picking up the Series S for another room / family members.

@BAMozzy Yeah I'm joking. It's definitely an interesting question

@BAMozzy well that's not confusing at all..

To be fair, it doesn't fit PlayStation's model at all at the moment but that may well change a few years down the line.

At the moment PS4 exclusives are selling at record rates so there's no way they'd throw that away. They're doing the classic crappy business thing of raising the prices instead because that's what crappy businesses do.

Yeah those COD prices are pretty mad.

Think I'll try and get a Series X via All Access.

If I do get a new Xbox this November, I think I might be sticking to whatever's on Game Pass for a bit.

Apple can do one.

Yeah I saw this email this morning. Was a nice touch

While EA Play is pretty cheap overall anyway, that is pretty incredible that they're now including it in Game Pass Ultimate.

With the backwards compatibility of Xbox as well it makes EA's offering pretty strong.

We're now looking at over 300 games included with Game Pass now, and really good games too!

Yeah, I'm preferring all these fan designs more than the real one. It's odd

Oooh yeah that looks great

Streaming from console is absolutely what I want

8/10. Guessed the wrong year for THUG and didn't have a clue which game came out first on Xbox. I was thinking it might've been 3 and then 2x was released after, but obviously not.

Given that 2x didn't release over here anyway though I feel like I get a bonus point there..

Oh wow. No idea where to start. Pretty incredible to think what gaming could be like in 20 years time

It is pretty great.

It's such a relief to finally be able to play a competent Tony Hawk's game on a modern console again for the first time in well over a decade!

Pretty poor if it's completely free on every other platform

Let it go guys..

Xbox are doing a great job with backwards compatibility compared to the competition, and it's great to be able to play games like RDR with improved visuals on a modern console.

However there are still flaws in Microsoft's approach. The vast majority of OG Xbox games won't play on Xbox One or Series X. The 360 library is much deeper but there are still some notable absentees.

I wish one of them would just make a fully backwards compatible machine. It really shouldn't be that complicated.

To be honest it feels like the Series X is part mid-gen upgrade at this point itself.

Who knows what the future holds?