Better image quality would be welcome nevertheless, and just making it BC would improve performance, texture filtering, and loading times. I'll take anything.
That's been debated before, and while it may be technically true from the game preservation standpoint, no consensus has ever been reached. This thread is specifically about Xbox One BC, and whether some games are already available elsewhere in superior form is of little consequence to a lot of people who will not play them on other platforms. Personally, I would hate for that to be the guiding principle in choosing which games to enhance.
I totally understand, personal preference should be each individual's number one priority, but I've found the greatest contribution of the ongoing progress of backwards compatibility has been in preservation, an area that's become more and more precarious with every passing year and which will be increasingly precarious in the years to come.
I think more from the perspective of someone who might not currently be interested in a certain game but might be down the line. Should that game be playable outside of consoles but never become compatible on Xbox, I at least am able to experience it someplace while something that's entirely been tied to that generation which never becomes compatible might quickly be inaccessible to me very soon. In that sense, it isn't only preservation as a utilitarian goal, one which benefit others rather than myself, but it leaves open the possibility of rewarding me equally.
It's those games that aren't available in a superior form elsewhere like El Sheddai or Asura's Wrath or Blur or NG2 etc. that, for the foreseeable future, require backwards compatibility to be in an enhanced form at all and is the gift of backwards compatibility which is most valuable for me.
Also, for those that might be wishing to play a game on Xbox One that has taken too long to arrive, the initial preference to play on Xbox might waver, and naturally too, when the option to play a superior version exists before it or after it becomes compatible. Speaking for myself, I'd find little reason to wait around for Max Payne 3 to become compatible if tomorrow a new Steam version with all the bells and whistles come out. And I don't think I would speaking necessarily for myself either since like potentially several people in this thread, I don't strictly play games on Xbox One, despite this being an Xbox One BC thread.
Shit, this post went on a bit longer than I originally thought.
