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Nothing Is Impossible – Engineer On Original Xbox Games Becoming Backwards Compatible On Xbox One
The Xbox 360 back-catalog just started to open up on Xbox One, with the recent launch of the new UI bringing backwards compatibility. It's an exciting feature and I do truly believe it was an engineering challenge.
However, could it go one better? While talking on The Inner Circle podcast (via Gamespot), Xbox engineering lead Mike Ybarra talked about the possibility of original Xbox games running on the new gen system. He said:
We're not looking at original Xbox games on Xbox One yet," he said. "Right now the focus is making more Xbox 360 games work. [It would be] certainly very challenging. Getting Xbox 360 games to work was incredibly challenging and really a multi-year engineering investment. Going all the way back to the original certainly would challenge the team.
He did however add that "nothing is impossible".
Personally, I don't think this has much value other than being able to say that the console can do it, but maybe that's enough. Bullet points on the back of the box sells consoles and one machine being able to play the entire back log of its history would be pretty huge.
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