Uh, I'm only talking about "from now on" which is what he said. This is "from now on" now.
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Xbox One adds Xbox 360 backwards compatibility
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Uh, I'm only talking about "from now on" which is what he said. This is "from now on" now.
BORDERLANDS (incl. DLC) available TODAY
If you own Borderlands, you’ll be able to play it on your Xbox One and you can carry over your previously-saved files, game add-ons and achievements.
http://majornelson.com/2015/09/03/borderlands-coming-to-xbox-one-backward-compatibility/
If you own Borderlands, you’ll be able to play it on your Xbox One and you can carry over your previously-saved files, game add-ons and achievements.
http://majornelson.com/2015/09/03/borderlands-coming-to-xbox-one-backward-compatibility/
That was just him messing up probs but yeah, I thought it'd be Sept onwards aswell.
Pick the 360 GWG's up anyways just to be on the safe side. Just because it isn't a requirement to be BC yet, doesn't mean it won't be.
Like I said in the other topic, they should really put these games on sale when they go BC and again in November. I'd pick Borderlands up for a few quid but I'm not paying full price for it in 2015.
speedomodel
Member
Have the GOTY edition and haven't touched DLC yet, sooooo will give it a go at some point. Awesome news, although we already knew this was coming.
SEGAvangelist
Member
I wonder what their DLC solution is.
Yes! Do we know how they handling the DLC? Because I only have a physical copy of the GOTY.
Well the emulator is on a game by game basis, I imagine it's just telling the emulator what DLC's you have and baking them into the actual game like Gears? Which would mean if you were to buy the DLC at a later time you would have to redownload the game so it should be easy to test.
Don't blame Microsoft. It's not their problem.
It up to the publishers what title and when to put it on backwards compatibility.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Or maybe they are putting all the DLC into the game download and portions just unlock based on what you own? Having to download the entire game every time you purchase DLC wouldn't be a very elegant solution.
Steverulez
Member
Borderlands was £3.75 very recently (I bought it) and gameplay was shown in a video Major Nelson did for it over E3 so... that one should have been expected.
I know , but MS could do a bit of pressure to the third party
Who says they don't? Just wait for it to launch officially
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Deleted member 47027
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That is exactly how it is handled.
Steverulez
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We don't know what they are doing behind the scenes, we know they have a decent list of third-party publisher support but Phil has said its more about making sure the emulator works properly in preview rather than just dumping games onto it.
spawnsniper
Member
I really wanna play the stick of truth is it possible?
I have a ps3 that I can get it on but idk I rather have the new controls.
I have a ps3 that I can get it on but idk I rather have the new controls.
Steverulez
Member
I think The Stick of Truth is a very likely prospect (given a sequel is coming) but nothing has been announced yet
Diablohead
Member
nice about borderlands, somone needs to leave performance feedback! I only own borderlands 2.
I guess that would work too but will take up a few GB's that people will never use if they don't have the DLC.
Another solution could be that it won't even have to download the entire game again & just the emulator which is like 500mb~ and the DLC. Though I'm not sure how possible this is since whenever there's been an update so far it's been the entire game you had to re download.
Yeah I was thinking about picking it up but decided to hold off since they weren't adding many games in preview and I figured it'd go on sale again before the official release. I think Borderlands games are on sale a lot so I shouldn't wait too much longer for a sale hopefully.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Pretty cool to have the entire Borderlands collection on one console now. I wish I had picked it up for cheap last sale.
TheAdmiester
Member
I'd have imagined that it would just download the game and they would add the code to the modified packages telling it how to handle DLC, so that it can be downloaded just like native Xbox One content. It'd be similar to the way they did Xbox 1 DLC on 360, it just installed to a separate, hidden partition dedicated to the emulation.
Steverulez
Member
Yes
not a big news...for me
Most likely.
On a side note it seems I don't own Borderlands.
I could of swore I got it free with Games for Gold.
paragonpro
Banned
I've never played the stick of truth but would love to, hope that makes it!
My biggest concern is that Backward Compatibility is going to be treated like an event - a marketing opportunity with each individual title release designed to make a big splash with lots of hoopla - rather than just releasing the d@mn thing with a 1000 other titles.
If we get a slow drizzle of games (100 each month)....that seriously takes away from the thrill of the thing for me personally. Don't make me unnecessarily wait for a title's release just because you want to flood my twitter feed.
Nope. But both Borderlands and Borderlands 2 have been on sale for less than $5 multiple times.
Borderlands was a PS+ title on PS3. You might be confusing that with GwG.
SEGAvangelist
Member
How on in the world is 100 games in a month a slow drizzle? Especially when something like Nintendo's Virtual Console exists. They also have to test the games and make changes to the emulator as issues pop up and and performance gets better.
All Gears games got added to backwards compatibility with the Ultimate edition didn't it?
All Gears games were announced as being available for BC when BC launches and anyone who plays UE before the end of the year gets all four BC copies for free.
People have been complaining that the games aren't available NOW even though they were never promised for a beta feature.
You can go between the One and the 360. As far as Live is concerned you are playing on an actual 360 when you're in BC mode.
Steverulez
Member
He clarified that he meant from November, which when "from now on" starts
speedomodel
Member
It's £3.24 on Amazon, I'm sure even cheaper on Ebay.
speedomodel
Member
Perfect game for a test, heavy MP/Co-Op game with loads of DLC. Glad their using their time to iron it out.
Garrett 2U
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The 360 OS doesn't know whether you're playing via Xbone hardware or 360 hardware.
So you can switch between whichever console you want
