{"id":80319,"date":"2015-08-20T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80319"},"modified":"2015-08-20T14:02:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T12:02:24","slug":"xbox-one-may-support-original-xbox-through-backwards-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/80319-xbox-one-may-support-original-xbox-through-backwards-compatibility","title":{"rendered":"Xbox One may support original Xbox through backwards compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In replying to a question posed over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XboxP3\/status\/634053409625108480\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, Phil Spencer revealed that Microsoft is considering backwards compatibility for the original Xbox on the Xbox One.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re obviously focused on having the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility up and running, but it looks like it may eventually happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HadleeSimons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HadleeSimons<\/a> I don&#39;t think it&#39;s silly. I ask the BC team this question a lot. Need to finish 360 BC for now.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XboxP3\/status\/634053409625108480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not going to pretend like this is nearly as big a deal as backwards compatibility for the Xbox 360, for some that&#8217;s hardly even a concern in itself.<\/p>\n<p>The original Xbox is a pretty old console, and a lot of its best titles are available via other means.<\/p>\n<p>To put it bluntly, very few will ever make use of backwards compatibility for the original Xbox.<\/p>\n<p>This is just an uneducated guess, but it&#8217;ll probably be in the thousands, which isn&#8217;t that many when you consider the Xbox One&#8217;s installer base.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be nice to have, but really, we&#8217;ve got a craving for <em>Lost Odyssey <\/em>and <em>Blue Dragon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And come the functionality&#8217;s release, that&#8217;s November worldwide, we&#8217;re going to do just that. Or at least we will once those two are supported \u2013 they won&#8217;t be at release.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.ign.com\/articles\/2015\/08\/20\/xbox-one-backwards-compatibility-could-extend-to-original-xbox?\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Let&#8217;s keep talking about the Xbox One for a moment<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/80233-stream-to-windows-10-in-1080p-at-60fps-via-the-xbox-app.html\">Stream to Windows 10 in 1080p at 60fps via the Xbox App<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/80111-forza-6s-extreme-detail-to-come-at-a-price-a-44-gb-install-size.html\">Forza 6\u2019s extreme detail to come at a price, a 44 GB install size<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/79699-microsofts-gamescom-2015-press-conference-highlights.html\">Microsoft\u2019s Gamescom 2015 Press Conference Highlights<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/79211-augusts-games-with-gold-includes-the-metro-series-and-mgsv-ground-zeroes.html\">August\u2019s Games with Gold includes the Metro series and MGSV: Ground Zeroes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s more of a luxury at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8834,91,1969,243,79,10065],"class_list":["post-80319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-backwards-compatibility","tag-microsoft","tag-news-2","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}