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Phil Spencer Breaks Down How Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Works

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Phil Spencer Explains Xbox One Backwards Compatibility

Xbox Boss Phil Spencer explains the technical side of the Xbox One backwards compatibility program

Backwards compatibility and game emulation are tough projects for companies or groups of any size to tackle. Trying to make a game run on a system it was originally designed for isn’t as easy as changing a few lines of code. That’s why Xbox Boss Phil Spencer sat down with the Giant Bomb podcast crew at E3 to explain how the Xbox One backwards compatibility program is able to work.

Spencer was honest from the start of the interview admitting the team behind the Xbox One backwards compatibility project was having trouble. Saying the team was dealing with how to harmonize PowerPC architecture with x86. In order to get around that they decided to fully emulate the Xbox 360 hardware system. According to Spencer the [operating system] for the 360 is actually running when you run the game,”

What that means for the Xbox One is that it thinks it’s playing a normal game so special features like streaming, screen shots, and everything else still works. Basically, the Xbox 360 OS believes it’s being played on a 360, while the Xbox One believes it’s playing an Xbox One game. Neither operating system is aware of the other.

Phil Spencer Explains Xbox One Backwards Compatibility

It’s a clever trick that sounds simpler than it really is, but there are limits to the Xbox One backwards compatibility that Spencer want’s gamers to know about. The first is that Xbox 360 Kinect games won’t work on the new system because “translating between the Kinect sensors is almost impossible.”

Spencer also wanted to assure gamers they are working on a way to bring multi-disc games into the Xbox One backwards compatibility lineup. Making games like Blue Dragon work means looking at how the game was originally packaged on the disc and reconfiguring. In the meantime gamers can vote on the games they want added to the program, with titles like Red Dead: Redemption already topping the list.

Source: Giant Bomb

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