They haven't announced anything in that regard yet. Here's hoping they will.
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Every single Xbox One game and every back-compat original Xbox and Xbox 360 game will work on Series X + Extra enhancements for some
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and if the past is any indicator, they will be emulated poorly IMO.
I gave up on The Warriors because of the erratic framerate.
They may instead continue enhancing XB1 games by increasing resolution and possibly increasing framerrates. A lot of 720p to 900p to 1080p XB1 games that never got XB1X patches.
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The work they put in on the BC tech on Xbox One is paying off. Looking forward to seeing it evolve into the next gen.
Hope they add some new OG XB and X360 games to the list though. I know the licensing part can be tough for old games, but there are still some games I would like to see get BC support.
(Timesplitters in particular.)
Hope they add some new OG XB and X360 games to the list though. I know the licensing part can be tough for old games, but there are still some games I would like to see get BC support.
(Timesplitters in particular.)
Agreed. I dont care that much about BC to be honest and definitely wanna see some PS5 exclusive games
Its gonna be amazing to get a XSX, connect your external drive, sign into your account and all of your games are there and play better than they did before.
At this point I thought this was expected? MS/Xbox has mastered BC and is the one real sticking point for me when it comes to PS5.
Not enough for me to change my purchase but hats off to Xbox.
Not enough for me to change my purchase but hats off to Xbox.
Not gonna lie... I was highly skeptical of the importance of backwards compatability on old games that I thought I'd never play again.
Then, I picked up a 1X on a massive Black Friday sale. I dug around my closet and found some OG Xbox games. Popped in Morrowind, Indiana Jones and Halo. Saw them running in 4k. Yep, I'm a believer.
Then, I picked up a 1X on a massive Black Friday sale. I dug around my closet and found some OG Xbox games. Popped in Morrowind, Indiana Jones and Halo. Saw them running in 4k. Yep, I'm a believer.
If I had to guess, it actually goes back to how the first Xbox One was engineered.
Remember when news broke that Xbox One was actually running a 3 OS Hyper-Vs in one solution? An OS Hyper-V, a game Hyper-V, and one hyper-V that ties it all together. I'll refer to that one as the Rug. This seemed odd at the time. Why virtualize code that could run natively on the hardware. And I think we now have our answer. It was forward looking at the time, we just didn't realize the implications.
The implications being... MS has already ported the XO's game hyper-V to XSX. That the Xbox hardware is NOT the Xbox platform, rather, the game Hyper-V is the Xbox platform.
XO code does not know that it is running on XO or XSX, it only knows that it's running on the game hyper-V. This is why original code will run un-altered on XSX. The quality of how it will run will be up to the port of the game hyper-V to XSX, but I'm guessing that this is why we can also see crazy enhancements to native code. The game hyper-V gets a request from the game software to render at 1080p, and it's like, "No dawg, I'm gonna render that shit at 4k!"
"Render this in SDR, please. That will be fine."
"F-that! I'm going to ask my ML buddy over here to add HDR!"
Then the game hyper-V passes it over to the Rug to spit it out to your TV with the enhancements. Game code is unaware that any of this is happening.
I surmise this is also the same approach to XOX enhancements to 360 BC titles. The main difference here is that 360 software was never written to run in a game hyper-V, so MS built a custom layer to facilitate that, on a game-by-game basis.
I have more crazy theories about how this applies to Lockhart as well.
XSX code is in the same state as XO code. It hands its instructions off to game hyper-V, but in Lockhart's case, game hyper-V will be like, "Hmm, ok. What if I render this at 1440p instead of 4k? And this raytracing stuff? Let's just not do that at all, if that's OK with you." Essentially, hyper-V is de-hancing games for Lockhart. This could mean there is still only one spec to develop to. Nothing needed by the devs to target both Anaconda and Lockhart. Game hyper-V does all the work. Again, XSX game code is unaware that this is happening.
Anyhow, if you got through that thanks for listening to the ramblings of a madman.
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For someone who didn't get an xbox one this generation this is great news if I plan on getting a series x. They have done everything the right way and only need a decent price point to sell well now.
Increasing resolution on games with locked resolutions isn't done automatically. HDR might be auto as it seems to be doing it at a system level.
Sony was the definition of petty with the used game situation last time lol
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It's absolutely fantastic! Very excited to get the next Xbox but will certainly be after the PS5 unless I come into an irresponsible amount of cash. I use backwards compatibility a lot on the Xbox One and knowing I can carry over everything on the XSX is great.
Hope they support with more 360 and original games down the line.
Hope they support with more 360 and original games down the line.
"Hundreds of games you can play day 1 with Xbox Series X"
"With Back Compat, Xbox Game Pass and Launching titles with Xbox Series X, no other place can you play as many games as you could before"
I can see those lines being used for marketing lol
"With Back Compat, Xbox Game Pass and Launching titles with Xbox Series X, no other place can you play as many games as you could before"
I can see those lines being used for marketing lol
At least doubling the resolution may be possible. Not certain on the particulars in possibly increasing the framerate.
Where? You sure it wasn't referring to dynamic resolutions automatically staying at it's highest resolution due to access to extra power.
Microsoft's edge over Sony in software and services is really showing. They are simply a powerhouse as a company in that department, and it cannot be denied. Microsoft has extensive, deep experience with backwards compatibility from their history with Windows and other platforms. I'm really excited for next gen.
They really should take advantage of the opportunity. Sony not having full BC with ps4 games while XSX has enhanced BC with games going all the way back to the og Xbox is just as big of a fuck up as what MS did in 2013 imo. MS then went on to fix the issue entirely and people could share their games normally at the launch of the Xbox one. Let's see if Sony makes improvements to the backwards compatibility prospects of the ps5 before launch.
I only have an original Xbox One, so the performance will probably not be perfect on that. I will wait for Xbox Series X, but this is the one game where improved bc is an actual system seller for me. On the daytime stages, this is the best Sonic has to offer.
it's in the DF article, for example GOW remastered, a game that has not been patched for the 1X runs at 4K on the XSX.
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