Xbox head Phil Spencer has confirmed when Xbox One owners when they can expect to play their Xbox 360 games on their new console.
@_SirKiwiiTastic We will announce the back compat list of the first 100 on 11/9.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) November 2, 2015
They will be announcing the first 100 games this November 9, and while they will be handpicking games, they will definitely prioritize the top requests on their requests poll for this top 100. For your reference; this is how fans voted:
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 – 107,254 votes
Red Dead Redemption – 98,268 votes
The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim – 95,492 votes
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – 85,289 votes
Halo: Reach – 83,107 votes
Call of Duty: Black Ops – 74,440 votes
Fallout 3 – 65,058 votes
Gears of War 3 – 63,778 votes
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – 62,005 votes
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – 56,171 votes
Microsoft will be using an emulator to provide this backwards compatibility, which provides advantages and disadvantages compared to the traditional approach of using the prior console’s hardware in the newer machine, as Nintendo has done for the Wii U. While they will not be able to make all titles backwards compatible, Microsoft is adding features like carrying over achievements and gamerscores. There are also some limited graphic enhancements, such as v-sync, as described here.
What Xbox 360 games do you hope will be made compatible for the Xbox One? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.
