The Xbox One has made an announcement ahead of the release of its new dashboard: it now supports over 100 games originally for the Xbox 360. The company has named this the Xbox One backwards compatibility program, and it takes off November 12 alongside the update to the Xbox One’s dashboard update, which will be powered by Windows 10.
This means that with this new dashboard, players will be able to insert their Xbox 360 game disks into their Xbox Ones. Players will then be prompted to download the game digitally, and once that’s complete, the original Xbox 360 game will run on the Xbox One. This move is surely made to compete with the PS4, whose games are exclusive to its console. This play, which may be profitable but makes very little sense for consumers, is a game changer in a sense, because crowd favorites can be brought back to life if gamers have upgraded their hardware while reluctantly sacrificing some of the console’s best games.
Among the favorites in the list that will be playable with the Xbox One backwards compatibility program are: Assassin’s Creed 2, Mass Effect, Mirror’s Edge and Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+. Unfortunately, among those not included in the program are Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Halo: Reach.
