Publishers are the biggest obstacle facing some Xbox 360 games being backwards compatible on Xbox One, according to Microsoft.
Partner director of platform management Mike Ybarra explained that game selection is based on two factors. One is fan feedback - which it is assessing through an online poll now - and the other is whether publishers will allow their games to carry forward.
"The biggest challenge we have is getting the publishers and developers to approve them. Once we get the approval, it's pretty simple," he told Digital Spy at E3 2015.
"Then we look at, what's the fan feedback on titles that they want, what's the most used Xbox 360 games right now - we take all of that and prioritise the list based on that criteria."
When asked about Xbox Original games, Ybarra said that Xbox 360 games are "our focus".
"Right now we're really focused on the fan feedback that we have on getting 360 games there," he said. "We'll have to go look at the data and see what all the fan feedback is on Originals."
The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.
Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)
Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke
Really good video.
I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.
Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.
Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue
I found this video painful to watch. Can someone list them out?
Top 10 for me from are:
1. 2013 reveal presentation
2. Bundling Kinect 2 with Xbox One
3. RRoD or why rushing to market with hardware is always a bad idea.
4. Buying studios only to close them.
5. Ads on the Home Screen
6. Letting Halo die.
7. Letting Geard of War die.
8. Every console name
9. Charging for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 when Sony let PS3 players play online for free.
10. Cancelling release of OG Xbox games after the Xbox 360 launched.
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
"Publishers are the biggest obstacle for certain Xbox 360 games not appearing on Xbox One"
Of course they are. If they allow their games to be BC with the X1, how would they justify the remasters/remakes?
Finally....This is the first article I have seen on this. I like MS new approach of pretty much leaving everything up to the developers, but this scares me because these devs might not want people to have access to their games on the new systems. I don't see RDR coming because they probably want to milk us with a $40-$60 remaster.
I like this, because it puts the pressure on the devs, a lot of times Sony and MS get blamed for a lot of things while the devs/publishers sit back and play the innocent role. For this...you cannot blame MS if your favorite game is not BC, its on the devs now.
No s*** Sherlock.
Who puts DRM in games? Publishers
Who sells off bits of games as DLC? Publishers
Who makes ridiculous exclusive deals? Publishers
Who will not enable BC on any console if they don't get any more money from it? Publishers
They should have an option to buy 360 games through xbox live and play them on xbox one. This will convince a lot of publishers to release their games.
Edit: Also, there isn't that many companies making hd remasters / rereleases other than Sony and Capcom.
@Christopher
Those games are remakes and not remasters. Unlike sony/capcom games they actually put effort into those games.
IF you could play it strait off the disk then there would be nothing they could do.