Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer took to Twitter recently to respond to some questions about the upcoming backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games announced for Xbox One. Spencer responded to fan comments, providing insight into the development progress and plans.
Spencer mentions that the backwards compatibility (BC) team is planning on bringing Microsoft’s entire first party collection of Xbox 360 games to the BC portfolio. Current Xbox Preview members can try out the feature, but Spencer notes this preview is to optimize emulation, not to show off the portfolio. The feature is scheduled to be available to everyone this fall.
In his responses, Spencer notes a few difficulties in bringing every title to the Xbox One. This includes licensing issues for songs and logos and game saves. The Fable Trilogy was also teased as a title being brought to Xbox One via BC.
Below are some of Spencer’s tweets:
@CameronMines Some games, racing is most difficult, can have licensing issues (songs, logos etc) but we want to support BC completely.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) July 10, 2015
@DevinKofsky @aarongreenberg Just met with the BC team yesterday. Discussed DLC, save games, more games etc. Team is still buzzing from E3.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) July 10, 2015
@Jimk183 We'll announce more games later but 1st party will be a big participant in BC so great assumption that it will be supported.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) July 10, 2015
@Mikey1601 Preview as really us working on emulation, not the portfolio, with the way BC works it's more about getting emulation right.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) July 10, 2015