They're covering their bases by stating that the sample size might not reflect the community as a whole but I think we can all safely make an educated assumption that this is pretty spot on. What stands out to me is that while BC might not be used by many people it's important to have it available. The goal is to eventually make the name Xbox a platform independent of the hardware it's on so to have the complete library available to play at any time is something that should be a priority. Not only does it allow for a kind of preservation of the history of the platform but it instills consumer confidence that buying into the ecosystem means you'll be supported for years and years, something that's a major selling point of PC gaming. It amazes me that people have to try to downplay the importance of this. Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Also damn Destiny has some legs. I've been a contributing member to that number. Destiny 2 is gonna be huge.
This is incorrect. BC is used by 50% of the player base
overall average time spent is just lower compared to new releases
for every 18 hours of Xbox One games played
1/2 hour of BC games are played
keep also in mind this data was gathered in a time from September 2016 to February 2017
the 2 biggest BC games were RDR released in July 2016 and BOII released in April 2017
so before and after the data was gathered
pretty hard for low profile BC games to compete against the blockbuster Holiday 2016 ne releases
The wording on the tweet I'm guessing you're referencing is not saying 50% of Xbox users are using BC, but that 50% have used it
"Oh cool I can play guardian heroes" and turning it on for 45 seconds to see if it actually works counts towards the stat of "user who has launched a BC title" but doesn't mean they're using it
fine. correct.
Im not native English, but isn't used the correct term for that? didn't say using
we don't have MAU or DAU BC user data from Microsoft sadly
