Backwards compatibility was a main selling point of Windows and is a big part of what made Microsoft successful. This was particularly true in the enterprise world where old apps had to continue working despite an OS upgrade. But it matters at the consumer level too of course. Everyone expects their PC apps to just work, even through major changes like the OS switching from 32 to 64 bit.

So it's kind of nuts that Microsoft ever considered this optional for their game console in the first place. Obviously they were able to use market dominance and invest lots of capital to make Xbox one of the top console brands regardless. But it's still dizzying how MS forgot such a core lesson that put them ahead of market competitors for decades.

Kind of a hyperbolic nothing burger of a headline. The current Xbox uses emulation to support the Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One library. And it doesn't support the whole library and almost certainly never will, the few remaining titles are likely prohibitively expensive and complicated to support for very niche audiences.

In other words, this headline is both obvious, who would expect them to not support their emulator on new hardware? And wrong, it won't support every Xbox game ever made.

If it could play every Xbox game without an always on internet connection or subscription then they have my interest.

For only $14.99 a month!/s

“and if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike”

Never going to happen

doubt

It could, but it won't. Not legally anyways.

Even steel battalion?