“That, and I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games, and the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?”įor now, it seems Microsoft players will have all the old-school fun for themselves. “When we’ve dabbled with backwards compatibility, I can say it is one of those features that is much requested, but not actually used much,” Jim Ryan, head of PlayStation Europe, told Time in June. While PlayStation Now offers the chance to stream games from a PS3 sat in a building somewhere to your home PS4, proper local gameplay doesn’t sound likely.
PS4 owners reading this and gearing up to dust off their old games might want to hold off. It can’t add in better graphics, but it can give old games a welcome polish. The Xbox One X will play certain 360 games at higher resolution, with greater color depth and new filtering techniques. It was perfect validation of all this effort.”īeyond cost savings on hardware and a simplified design, the other benefit of the software-based route is enhancements to original games. “It was literally the proudest moment of my career,” Kevin La Chapelle, the Microsoft veteran at the heart of the project, told IGN. In the summer of 2015, Microsoft announced the feature at the E3 electronics show. Forward planning meant the team was able to shape the hardware slightly to make software emulation easier. The team started working in 2007 on backwards compatibility again for the upcoming Xbox One, due to launch in 2013. Microsoft, unwilling to slap an Xbox-inside-an-Xbox, opted for a software-based route when it developed backwards compatibility for the Xbox 360, which used a PowerPC chip very different from the original machine. The Nintendo Switch, which h, also only supports older games downloaded from the store. Sony’s PS4 is still only capable of playing certain PS2 games downloaded from the online store, with disc-based games and the company’s other two home consoles shut out. Microsoft has pulled ahead with its support for old software on new machines. Just pop an old disc in the machine, and it will download a complete version of the old game. In this first batch, set to expand over time, some cult favorites make their way over to the console, including mind-control platformer Psychonauts, party game Fuzion Frenzy, and first-person shooter Red Faction II. The initial list of 13 original Xbox games joins the staggering 434 Xbox 360 games compatible with the Xbox One. It’s a big break from Sony and Nintendo, both of which generally ask customers to buy old games all over again if they want to play them on its new consoles. With the new release, the machine now supports titles dating back to 2001. The Xbox One got a huge upgrade on Tuesday, as Microsoft rolled out support for certain original Xbox games on its latest console.
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