Xbox 360 games are region-free on Xbox One

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The guys over at Xbox Achievements have posted a rather interesting find. It appears that the Xbox One is able to play Xbox 360 games, regardless of their origin.

For those who have not experienced the previous era, the Xbox 360 had NTSC-J games for Japan, NTSC-U for North America and PAL for Europe.

Currently Xbox 360 games on Xbox One are region free and therefore not bound to a certain region.

Xbox Achievements went on to say 'there are five games of the initial 104 that have "stackable" achievement lists. You can play Japanese versions of Borderlands, Gears of War 2, and Just Cause 2, the German version of Rainbow Six Vegas 2, and the European version of Wolfenstein 3D. As more games are added to the backcompat program, likely more stackable versions will be playable as well.'

Posted: Nov 15, 2015 2:51 pm
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Comments

Persil2in1Posted: Sun. Nov 15, 2015

More achievements, yaaaaaaay

DBKPosted: Sun. Nov 15, 2015

Idk if this will make my connection worse but pretty cool!

DanielPosted: Sun. Nov 15, 2015

This is decent I guess, Not much more to say about this.

VoroPosted: Sun. Nov 15, 2015

That's pretty cool I guess.

K3VINPosted: Sun. Nov 15, 2015

So now i will hear more japs and stuff? Lol i am not really getting the point in this. Is this so we better communicate or what?

RobbedPosted: Sun. Nov 15, 2015

So that means you can earn the same achievement more than once if you buy the game in a different region?

vLunaPosted: Sun. Nov 15, 2015

Well this is good to hear.

RinPosted: Sun. Nov 15, 2015

So when they say "stackable", does that mean the different versions counts as a separate game to the NA version? Meaning you can obtain the same achievement twice if you own two different copies of the same game?