Good news for Xbox One owners who want to play Xbox 360 games on their consoles.
As reported by Games Radar, more games from the 360 will come to the Xbox One compatibility program, according to Mike Ybarra, the man who's overseeing every aspect of the Xbox program today.
The first wave of backwards compatible games is reported to arrive on Nov. 12, alongside a complete overhaul of the Xbox One operating system.
It would consist of 104 titles and, as expected, another set of games would follow through as Microsoft's goal is to cover the entire Xbox 360's library of games.
However, it would not come easy as technical emulation and a game's availability is quite difficult to do. According to Ybarra, "When we created Xbox One, we had statements around whether [backwards compatibility] was possible," he then added "We truly believed that at the time."
Fortunately, that belief transitioned into tangible progress as six months after an earnest effort to achieve the goal, gamers finally will finally witness a huge number of 360 games to work on the latest console.
But again, it was not an easy progress. Not until Phil Spencer took over as the new head of Xbox and started hiring the best engineers that it began to happen.
Furthermore, the technology that was implemented for it to work is quite amazing. Ybarra assured that by the time an Xbox 360 game is played on the latest console, it would play nice and smoothly and the player can even use the latest version of the Xbox Live.
In a related report by GameSpot, the backwards compatibility feature comes with the new Xbox One Experience dashboard update, which will start rolling out worldwide on Thursday, Nov. 12.
But as announced by Microsoft, it explained that the update will be a "phased development" meaning, not every owner of the console will get it at the same time.
As for Xbox One owners who already have the Instant-on power mode enabled, you won't have to do anything as the console will automatically download the update when it comes available.
For users using Energy-saving mode, they would have to manually check and go to Settings System to know if the update is already available.
According to VG247, users who don't want to update it right away have the option to do so, but come Nov. 23, all owners of an Xbox One will receive a message requesting for a "mandatory update."
The update has many interesting features, but the most apparent and most anticipated is the backwards compatibility of old Xbox 360 games.
