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Delivering on our promise. Compatible games become even more beautiful than before with an improved look and feel to their gameplay. After more than 500,000 hours of testing were put into testing and meeting quality standards for Xbox Series X|S gameplay, titles that are backward compatible are dramatically enhanced from how they used to look and feel – while preserving the playability you ...
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Beginning July 29th, 2024, the Xbox 360 Store is no longer...
- Xbox backward compatibility FAQ
The Xbox Series X/S was released in 2020 and was confirmed to be backwards compatible with the same list of games as the Xbox One at launch. On November 15, 2021, a "final addition" of 76 titles was published as part of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the original Xbox console. [2] This is the following list of all backward compatible ...
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By Adam Bankhurst
Updated: Oct 22, 2020 7:52 pm
Posted: Sep 20, 2020 7:13 pm
Microsoft has detailed how the Xbox Series S will handle backwards compatibility for games of the original Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One S, and how this next-gen system will make those experiences even better.
As reported by Eurogamer, Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter spoke to Microsoft about the Xbox Series S and and how it will offer "1440p for OG Xbox and enhanced 360 titles, 2x performance on select One S titles - and more."
Original Xbox games will feature a "3x boost to resolution on both axes, meaning that titles targeting 480p on the original machine will hit a maximum of 1440p on Series S, presumably with a range of performance benefits."
Games will also load much faster with the new solid state storage, and Auto HDR will also be present and will make games look better than their Xbox One S counterparts. Furthermore, CPU-limited titles should also "deliver more stable performance at target frame-rates."
Speaking of frame-rates, Xbox One titles will be able to run at double the frame-rate on both the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X.
"We designed the Series S to enhance the Xbox One S games in a way that the Xbox One X can't do," system architect Andrew Goossen tells Eurogamer. "We made it easy for existing Xbox One S games to be updated to run with double the frame-rate when played on Series S as well. When games are updated, existing games can query to determine whether they're running on the new console. And in terms of the performance, the Series S provides well over double the effective CPU and GPU performance over the Xbox One, making it pretty straightforward for the games to do this. And in fact, the Series S GPU runs the Xbox One S games with better performance than the Xbox One X."
Another exciting aspect is how relatively simple it seems to enhance previous games to take advantage of the power of these next-gen systems.
"There's no real perf tuning necessary when you do this, and so often it's just as easy as changing three lines of code, and then the game works." Goossen adds. "Even when it's not that easy, the fixes are still pretty minor. We had one triple-A title where doubling the frame-rate really worked perfectly, except that the crowd animation was twice as fast as normal. And so, those sorts of fixes are typically very, very easy for developers to go fix. We're working with game developers and publishers to update [their titles]. It'll basically be select games that run at a doubled frame-rate on the Series S."
The Xbox Series S and the Xbox Series X will both be released on November 10, 2020, and will cost $299 and $499, respectively. For more on the Xbox Series S, read on about how game sizes will be smaller on the Series S, 8 new details we learned about the smaller next-gen console, and its full specs.
Both the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S will be available for preorder on September 22, 2020, and you can stay up to date everything you need to know about Xbox preorders in our constantly updated guides that contain what you need to know to secure one or both!
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Nov 19, 2021 · Though Microsoft wound down its original Xbox and Xbox 360 back compatible efforts in mid-2019 in favour of Xbox One support for Xbox Series X - which also supports a range of improvements - there ...
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Beginning July 29th, 2024, the Xbox 360 Store is no longer supported and content can no longer be purchased on an Xbox 360. Previously purchased Xbox 360 content can be downloaded again using the steps in the following guide: Xbox 360 backward compatible games can still be purchased on newer Xbox consoles. For a full list of available Xbox 360 ...
Xbox Series X|S game compatibility with the Xbox One console is provided on a per-title basis by the game’s developer. If you’re not sure which console your game will play on, check on the box or on the game’s details page in the Microsoft Store. Because Xbox Series S is an all-digital console, disc-based games aren’t compatible with it.
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As of the Xbox Series launch, there are 39 backwards compatible original Xbox games. Armed and Dangerous. Black. Blinx: The Time Sweeper. BloodRayne 2. Breakdown. Conker: Live & Reloaded. Crimson ...
