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[Det]

Let me guess:

MS would make PC APUs with Xbox Series hardware compatibility and sell them to OEMs. The PC would have an "Xbox" sticker and would run Windows and a hardware emulator for Xbox Series X digital media, including all the Xbox Series X retro games.

MS then discovered, after planning, that no one would authorize a Windows PC to run Xbox games, even hardware emulated ones.

And now, Xbox consumers won't even have expensive PCs with Xbox Series X backward compatibility.

Don't forget Games for Windows Live.

 

[viveks86]

Let me guess:

MS would make PC APUs with Xbox Series hardware compatibility and sell them to OEMs. The PC would have an "Xbox" sticker and would run Windows and a hardware emulator for Xbox Series X digital media, including all the Xbox Series X retro games.

MS then discovered, after planning, that no one would authorize a Windows PC to run Xbox games, even hardware emulated ones.

And now, Xbox consumers won't even have expensive PCs with Xbox Series X backward compatibility.

Don't forget Games for Windows Live.

IF the rumor is true, it's a good guess.

I don't think this is how it will play out at all and this is one of those MLiD speculations being dressed up as a leak

 

[StereoVsn]

My advice - hold on to your Series consoles and take good care of them. There are no guarantees that your libraries will be safe & fully playable on future devices (whatever they may be).

Yep, planning to buy a used one for backup. I have that with all of my systems except for PS5 since that wont be hard to find.

 

[NickFire]

Just looking at the two quotes, I don't think there's anything backwards compatibility related being killed. Restrictions from contracts, copyright, licenses don't impact the ability to run the games mechanically.

 

[kevboard]

if they kill backwards compatibility, they kill Xbox as a whole. so I doubt they'll do that.
the exiting library is the only real tump card they still have. the correct way to go about it would be to expand the backwards compatibility further.

Microsoft's whole identity is backwards compatibility... not just on Xbox, in general. Windows is so insanely backwards compatible that they literally keep some bugs in the OS just because some older software would not work if they fixed them. they still default to C drive for your first hard drive instead of A or B, only so that if you wanna use a floppy disc based program it won't get confused about the drive letters.

 

[Bry0]

MLID is only talking about software emulation BC here. The statements from Sarah bond and Lisa su implied hardware level BC, but were still kind of vague so I'm not sure what they mean still.

 

[Dane]

I doubt it. The only reason for that would be a change to ARM instructions and if so it'd be more difficult to emulate Series than One.

Almost sure its not even about hardware, being still on x86 for example would be certainly a carryonver just like from One to Series, it is the legal side where you have developers who refuse to do Play Anywhere games, technically demanding an Xbox console to play console only library is the solution, unless there's a risk where developers would sue them for having it as a PC with an Xbox console chip and layer on it, which would be silly since these games would only work with said hardware rather than open format.

 

[adamsapple]

ffs why can't people understand that the ROG Ally "Xbox" is just a branding thing and the next-gen Xbox is an actual console

And miss out on all the rage?

 

[bitbydeath]

ffs why can't people understand that the ROG Ally "Xbox" is just a branding thing and the next-gen Xbox is an actual console

It's very simple to understand:

Natively runs PC, emulates console = PC
Natively runs console, emulates PC = Console

There is a third option for dual-boot of course, maybe that's what they are planning.

 

[Crayon]

Oh I remember in 2017 when overnight, partial bc became the most important thing any console could ever have. Followed closely be hd-dvd drive.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

So basically the console versions of games will not be carrying over next gen. Anything not on Play Anywhere isn't carrying over.


Wow, what a clusterfuck, I can't imagine this going over well.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

It's very simple to understand:

Natively runs PC, emulates console = PC
Natively runs console, emulates PC = Console

There is a third option for dual-boot of course, maybe that's what they are planning.

K KeplerL2 Likely knows more about future hardware level stuff than anyone else here

He is one of those guys people should pay close attention to what he says here and on Twitter

 

[bitbydeath]

K KeplerL2 Likely knows more about future hardware level stuff than anyone else here

He is one of those guys people should pay close attention to what he says here and on Twitter

I agree but his responses on this topic are very vague. Eg. What are they doing to get around PC running natively, or is he indicating there will be a console without the PC side?

 

[KeplerL2]

So basically the console versions of games will not be carrying over next gen

They are (for the real Xbox)

Anything not on Play Anywhere isn't carrying over.

Only for the fake Xbox devices like the ROG Ally 2

 

[EverydayBeast]

Having backwards compatibility use to mean something