Microsoft values backwards compatibility a lot. At least in windows. So from a technical viewpoint, the older Xbox games are probably already compatible with the newest Xbox. If that is the case, technically it would be as easy as removing the arbitrary check that the Xbox version matches. Maybe add a frame rate limiter so old games that calculated time for physics based on frame rate don’t break.
From a business perspective, Microsoft does not sell as many remakes/remasters as other companies (like Nintendo, that just sells you an old game+emulator for absurd prices).
In fact, with gamepass, Microsoft states that it doesn’t want to sell you games. It just wants you to spend as much time in Xbox/WinPC paying their subscriptions.
Allowing old games will mean bringing them to gampass too. Which is what they want. They want as many games in gamepass as possible.
Are you familiar with the person who is now running Xbox? Before her appointment I would have 100% agreed with you, but now I just can’t see them making a good decision based on what I’ve seen so far. I’d love to be wrong.
“and if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike”
Never going to happen
I don’t think the chances are that remote.
Microsoft values backwards compatibility a lot. At least in windows. So from a technical viewpoint, the older Xbox games are probably already compatible with the newest Xbox. If that is the case, technically it would be as easy as removing the arbitrary check that the Xbox version matches. Maybe add a frame rate limiter so old games that calculated time for physics based on frame rate don’t break.
From a business perspective, Microsoft does not sell as many remakes/remasters as other companies (like Nintendo, that just sells you an old game+emulator for absurd prices).
In fact, with gamepass, Microsoft states that it doesn’t want to sell you games. It just wants you to spend as much time in Xbox/WinPC paying their subscriptions.
Allowing old games will mean bringing them to gampass too. Which is what they want. They want as many games in gamepass as possible.
Are you familiar with the person who is now running Xbox? Before her appointment I would have 100% agreed with you, but now I just can’t see them making a good decision based on what I’ve seen so far. I’d love to be wrong.