Xbox One not backwards compatible with 360 discs/XBLA purchases; Gamerscore does transfer
Posted by Joystiq May 21 2013 19:38 GMT in Xbox One
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Microsoft's minty-fresh Xbox One will be unable to play Xbox 360 discs, nor will your multitude of Xbox Live Arcade purchases transfer to the new machine, our friends at Engadget have learned.

The incompatibility is due to the fact that the Xbox One runs on x86 processor architecture, whereas the Xbox 360 ran on PowerPC. This fundamental difference in hardware architecture prevents the Xbox One from natively running Xbox 360 games, regardless of how powerful the thing may be.

"We care very much about the investment people have made in Xbox 360 and will continue to support it with a pipeline of new games and new apps well into the future," a Microsoft representative told Engadget. Part of that investment will transfer, however: Your Xbox Live Gamerscore.

Earlier this year, Sony also announced that its PlayStation 4 will make the jump to a processor built on the x86 platform.

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the Wii U backwards compatibility isnt perfect, but it's better than nothing
Reply by Francis May 21 2013 19:05 GMT
It looks like a shitty outdated cable box.
Reply by Ignorant May 21 2013 19:32 GMT
it IS a shitty cable box
I literally have a xbox 1 sitting under my tv already
except it doesn't play games
but thats what the wii U is for like 1 self above it.
Reply by Super-Claus May 21 2013 19:37 GMT
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