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Phil Spencer: Nearly 50% of XB1 owners playing BC games

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see5harp

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They make it super easy, especially with how many decent 360 games you get with Gold as well as getting rid of the need to switch discs with games like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon. Those games legit run better than they ever did. Having the same unlockable achievements, support for leaderboards, access to parties, screenshots, and video capture make it the greatest implementation for BC on a home console ever.
 
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Fox_Mulder

Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
StoopKid said:
15 million people are playing bc games right now?

Receipts.
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30 million people have bought an xbone?

I wanna see the receipts
 
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ramoisdead

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Say what you will on how Microsoft stumbled with the Xbox One, they hit a home run with this feature. It is something Sony (PS3 games not compatible with PS4) and Nintendo (upgrade path fees or even worst, rebuying the same content) should learn how to do.

Kudos to Microsoft.
 
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Sydle

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Not surprised. It's a great feature. I didn't think I would use it, but I've played through several games already.
 
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Alienfan

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Considering how poor their efforts were with Xbox games on the 360,it's strange to think Microsoft are now the only console manufacturer still doing true backwards compatibility. Nintendo stopped with the Switch and Sony with the PS4
 
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STEaMkb

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ramoisdead said:
Say what you will on how Microsoft stumbled with the Xbox One, they hit a home run with this feature. It is something Sony (PS3 games not compatible with PS4) and Nintendo (upgrade path fees or even worst, rebuying the same content) should learn how to do. Kudos to Microsoft.
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Um, both the PS2 and PS3 had backward compatibility out of the starting gate. Not select backward compatabilty in dribs and drabs -- full backward compatibility.
 
StereoVsn

StereoVsn

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Got to give kudos to MS on BC. It's really well implemented on hardware that has no business running that emulation and in addition MS is hard at work bringing more games into the fold, they accept physical disks and it's freaking free. This is miles ahead of Sony, hell, parsecs ahead.

The only reason I am even contemplating Xbone is BC.

Dynablast said:
Um, both the PS2 and PS3 had backward compatability out of the starting gate. Not select backward compatabilty in dribs and drabs -- full backward compatibility.
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That's great and all but Sony is peddling PS2 games that they released on PS3 for full price on PS4 (with extremely limited selection), have no PSX BC, and their method of PS3 BCcis freaking streaming. This is far behind what MS is doing with Xbone.
 
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Wereroku

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ramoisdead said:
Say what you will on how Microsoft stumbled with the Xbox One, they hit a home run with this feature. It is something Sony (PS3 games not compatible with PS4) and Nintendo (upgrade path fees or even worst, rebuying the same content) should learn how to do.

Kudos to Microsoft.
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Even if Sony had the software expertise to try BC ps3 it would still fail. The architecture is to different. Xbox one has the matching GPU architecture going for it at least.
 
adamsapple

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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Hey if I had an Xb1 I would sure as shit be playing or had at least bought a few of the BC games. It's an amazing feature and MS has done extremely well by it.

I hope Sony follows it soon too. PS Now is an abomination.
 
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Blueblur1

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I think they're definitely counting folks who launched a BC game at least once. But I'm sure there are more people than ever playing BC games just because how easy it is to launch and play games from a digital library (as opposed to taking a physical 360 disc off the shelf).
 
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CCIE

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Well the best games on the system are 360 games, so it kind of makes sense. I would probably only be interested in Blue Dragon and Ori, personally. Hear that BD runs nice, though.
 
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Bubba_Sparks

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Seems like such a missed opportunity on PlayStation 4 given how great the PSX through PS3 library of exclusives is! I've recently just purchased a PS2, and am now looking to get a PS3 to cover the entire catalogue of PS games. It would be so much easier - cheaper - if I could just digitally download them all.
 
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PlayerOne

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Shouldn't that speak to the quality of your console's games (or today's games) more than anything else?

There are so many games out there releasing almost every week and people would rather play 360 games?
 
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TangoAlphaLima

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Wereroku said:
Even if Sony had the software expertise to try BC ps3 it would still fail. The architecture is to different. Xbox one has the matching GPU architecture going for it at least.
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Sure, but that was Sony's mistake when choosing the cell architecture for the PS3. It not only caused problems that gen (devs struggled programming on it for a long time), but it also prevented the type of software-enabled backwards compatibility that the PS4 would have been able to pull off better than the X1 given its horsepower advantage.
 
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icespide

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PlayerOne said:
Shouldn't that speak to the quality of your console's games (or today's games) more than anything else?

There are so many games out there releasing almost every week and people would rather play 360 games?
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check out any number of the BC threads and see all of the "BC is the only reason I own an Xbox One" posts is quite comical
 
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RodzTF

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This is the only reason I'd buy an Xbox One. That and Forza Horizon.

Super happy with PS4 but PlayStation Now just doesn't cut it.
 
StereoVsn

StereoVsn

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PlayerOne said:
Shouldn't that speak to the quality of your console's games (or today's games) more than anything else?

There are so many games out there releasing almost every week and people would rather play 360 games?
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This will come as a shock but people play even NES, SNES, Genesis, PC Engine, Atari, PSX, Saturn games. Weird, right?
 
digoutyoursoul

digoutyoursoul

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Nice feature and one i certainly appreciate but I think they have had enough pats on the back for this. How about not giving your fans a whole year to hear about some new games Phil?
 
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Arthr2ShdsJcksn

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Well, sure, I'm guessing most people tried it once, and then soon forgot about it. I know I did, and I just got my Xbox One (S) a couple of weeks ago.

I will probably play with it more in the future, but it will be mostly for the arcade games, not the full disc-based titles.
 
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