E3 2015: Xbox One’s Getting Full 360 Back Compatibility ‘This Holiday’

<p>Sold your Xbox 360 but still have a bunch of Xbox 360 games sitting on your shelf&quest; Microsoft has a solution for that&period; The Xbox One&&num;8217&semi;s getting full backward compatibility for all Xbox 360 games this holiday&comma; the company&&num;8217&semi;s announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new feature&&num;8217&semi;s coming this holiday via online update&comma; available first for Xbox preview members later this year and all Xbox One owners &&num;8220&semi;this holiday&period;&&num;8221&semi; As advertised&comma; Microsoft demonstrated the new compatibility by playing the original<em> Mass Effect<&sol;em> on an Xbox One as it worked on 360&comma; minus the ability to take a screenshots via the Xbox One&&num;8217&semi;s photo like any Xbox One game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; all your digital 360 games will be automatically downloaded onto your Xbox One via Xbox Live and over &&num;8220&semi;a hundred &lbrack;360&rsqb; games&&num;8221&semi; are intended for Xbox One&&num;8217&semi;s back compatibility update with &&num;8220&semi;a hundred more&&num;8221&semi; slated for next year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What&&num;8217&semi;s going to qualify as &&num;8220&semi;compatibility&&num;8221&semi; you say&quest; You&&num;8217&semi;ll be able to use your 360 retail discs and all&comma; exactly as they are on your game shelf so you&comma; as Microsoft tells us&comma; &&num;8220&semi;won&&num;8217&semi;t have to pay for the games you already own&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em>For more on Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s conference&comma; check out our liveblog <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;microsoft-e3-2015-conference&sol;">here&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;