Xbox Scorpio Will Run 360 and One Games Without ‘Technical Wizardry’

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Xbox One Scorpio will be fully backwards compatible with Xbox One and Xbox 360. In an interview with Stevivor, Xbox head Phil Spencer noted that the console as specifically being designed so that Xbox 360 and Xbox One games ‘just run’ on it, without any technical wizardry’ required.

“We’ve very specifically designed it [on Scorpio] so Xbox games just run,” he said, referring to both Xbox 360 and Xbox One titles. “It’s nothing like Xbox 360 backwards compatibility right now — there’s a lot of technical wizardry involved in that. We didn’t want to have to do that again.”

That’s good- after all, one of the major points of these iterative consoles is that they will hopefully make libraries continuous, and never lead to generational breaks in libraries of the kind that we are otherwise used to. Now Phil, if you could just add original Xbox compatibility into the mix too, it would be much appreciated…

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Source: http://gamingbolt.com/xbox-scorpio-will-run-xbox-360-and-xbox-one-games-with-no-technical-wizardry-required

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MajPosted:

What I still don't understand is the fact that the 360 as well as the PS2 could run games from their earlier gens. So why are they making it out to be some big time advancement? Technology will not and cannot move on much more than it has, they are sneaky and make it seem like its much better when in reality it's not

MickersPosted:

Hope i can afford this when it's released.

PoonPosted:

This is some good news, then we wont have to wait for months at a time for a game to come out! lol

DanielPosted:

Great news this console is everything, I can't wait for this to be released.

XboxPosted:

Great to see can't wait to cop the Scorpio when I get the chance.

SkatesPosted:

This is great news, nice to hear them taking a simple approach.

TelePosted:

This is good, carry on the generation.

Two_FacedPosted:

I mean if you didn't see this coming...

I'll be getting this but not going to on day one. I almost never buy anything as soon as it comes out.

extrememasters1Posted:

Why would it need to be backwards compatible with xbox one games thy said it would not have any exclusives and that it was just a far more powerful xbox one not a whole new console

ZydrinPosted:

This is some amazing news! Hopefully they allow support for all games like MW2!