After a long wait, Xbox One users will finally be able this week to play over 100 games that were previously only available on the Xbox 360. Even better, Microsoft won’t charge them to do so.
Microsoft first announced it was working on backwards compatibility for Xbox One in June during a press conference at the E3 gaming expo. So what does this mean for gamers?
Starting Thursday, discs from the previous Xbox console can simply be inserted and downloaded to the hard drive and played on the newer console – a feature users had been asking the company for since the Xbox One’s release in November 2013. The games will run just as they did on Xbox 360 and will also be compatible with new Xbox One features, such as the screenshot tool and streaming to Windows 10 devices.
If you bought a game directly on your Xbox 360 console in the online store, the game will be automatically added to your library and become available for download.
But Microsoft will only have compatibility for 104 games on Thursday, including the complete Gears of War catalog, Assassin’s Creed II, Fallout 3, Borderlands, and Castle Crashers. The company has promised gamers it will work quickly to make all games available.
Some of Xbox’s most popular titles – like Halo Reach, Halo Wars, Call of Duty: Black Ops 1, and the Bioshock series – will be compatible by December.
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