Sold your Xbox 360 but still have a bunch of Xbox 360 games sitting on your shelf? Microsoft has a solution for that. The Xbox One’s getting full backward compatibility for all Xbox 360 games this holiday, the company’s announced.
The new feature’s coming this holiday via online update, available first for Xbox preview members later this year and all Xbox One owners “this holiday.” As advertised, Microsoft demonstrated the new compatibility by playing the original Mass Effect on an Xbox One as it worked on 360, minus the ability to take a screenshots via the Xbox One’s photo like any Xbox One game.
In addition, all your digital 360 games will be automatically downloaded onto your Xbox One via Xbox Live and over “a hundred [360] games” are intended for Xbox One’s back compatibility update with “a hundred more” slated for next year.
What’s going to qualify as “compatibility” you say? You’ll be able to use your 360 retail discs and all, exactly as they are on your game shelf so you, as Microsoft tells us, “won’t have to pay for the games you already own.”
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