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- Xbox head Phil Spencer revealed on Thursday that the Xbox Series X will play every Xbox One game at launch, unless the game happens to require Kinect.
- Thanks to this functionality, the Xbox Series X will have "the largest launch lineup for any new console ever, with thousands of games to play."
- Microsoft will show off more Xbox Series X games at its Xbox Games Showcase on July 23rd.
Microsoft has made backward compatibility a priority in recent years, and that functionality is going to be one of the main selling points of the Xbox Series X. As soon as the company began talking about its next-gen console, we were told that it would play games from every previous Xbox generation, all the way back to the 2001 original. Throughout the development process, Xbox boss Phil Spencer and his team have been keeping us updated on the progress of the feature, but on Thursday, Spencer delivered a bombshell in an Xbox Wire blog post.
According to Spencer, the plan right now is for "all Xbox One games that do not require Kinect to play on Xbox Series X at the launch of the console." Thousands of games have been released for the Xbox One over the last seven years, and the head of Xbox says that you'll be able to play all of them on your Xbox Series X this fall.
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Microsoft confirms the biggest advantage Xbox Series X has over PS5 originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 15:42:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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