Backwards Compatibility
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Cool. Going to have to fire up GTA IV and Red Dead when i do get my Xbox One X. Love the fact that they're making all these older games run much better.
The one thing I have found with BC is that it doesn't support secondary " free gold"accounts on the Xbox One. We have the disk for the Black Ops 1 game and when I am logged in, I can play online since I have gold. My son can't play online because he doesn't have gold. Even though everyone that is on the Xbox One gets gold if one member is a paid gold member. I mean it makes sense, since that is a feature of the Xbox One, and all the Xbox One is simulating a 360 OS built in.
That is our experience anyway. No biggie, he just played under my name.
That is our experience anyway. No biggie, he just played under my name.
I believe that's because Xbox 360 games run as they did on 360 (and the games think they are) and that means they don't ascribe to the one gold account for everyone rule as it is on Xbox One.
They should change that policy IMO.
You guys can't get home sharing to work?
Even with X, home sharing works with my buddy and we share all digital games.
And we've done Black Ops 1 on BC before.
My son doesn't pay for gold, so as I see mentioned above the Xbox 360 doesn't recognize him as gold the way the Xbox One does.
Hedons referencing that his sons Gamertag cant play online because the Xbox 360 originally required a gold sub for each user to play online.
Xbox One changed it so only one gold sub is required for all users to play online.
So MS had hardware customizations done to help with this in the X1 from the start, it's not purely a software solution then. Good move on their part, even if it's not widely used it's still something to check off that the competition doesn't have and hopefully it'll push Sony to do something similar with their next console.
I don't think either MS or Sony will put out new consoles that don't play PS4/X1 games on them, as long as they stick with AMD and therefor x86 it shouldn't be as hard. Hopefully next time it'll just be all games work from the start and not having one console with none of them working and the other having to pick games to adapt.
I don't think either MS or Sony will put out new consoles that don't play PS4/X1 games on them, as long as they stick with AMD and therefor x86 it shouldn't be as hard. Hopefully next time it'll just be all games work from the start and not having one console with none of them working and the other having to pick games to adapt.
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Ah, ok. Didn't know 360 was different.
But ya, home sharing between two people on X1 just needs one person to get Gold and the BC digital game.
SONY won't because it goes against their network setup. Sony is trying not to go back on what they built on.
If I have a network using my money and then its only good for a short time and I have to spend even more to make a hardware, I will be pissed.
They made their bed with that and now they have to stick with it.
Its not really impossible.
Theres no reason you cant put in god of war 3 into a ps4 and download god of war 3 remastered.
The game was 60fps on both systems. The only difference is resolution. We see patches for resolution increases for free now. Even so...they could limit the resolution and its basically the same.
One major issue is infrastructure. Most 360 games are 7GB at most. Most PS3 games range from 30- 50 GB.
If you own 100 PS3 games at 50GB each thats nearly 5 Terabytes for data for one user. The expectations of gamers is this would be delivered for free.
On Xbox it would be around a quarter that size.
Microsoft has azure and the 300,000 servers the Xbox uses is less than 3% of its load. (Based on a 2012 count of 14 million servers, its only gone up since)
Sony kills the online for games less than a year old. On a paid for service.
One could say....its only possible with the power of the cloud.
Theres no reason you cant put in god of war 3 into a ps4 and download god of war 3 remastered.
The game was 60fps on both systems. The only difference is resolution. We see patches for resolution increases for free now. Even so...they could limit the resolution and its basically the same.
One major issue is infrastructure. Most 360 games are 7GB at most. Most PS3 games range from 30- 50 GB.
If you own 100 PS3 games at 50GB each thats nearly 5 Terabytes for data for one user. The expectations of gamers is this would be delivered for free.
On Xbox it would be around a quarter that size.
Microsoft has azure and the 300,000 servers the Xbox uses is less than 3% of its load. (Based on a 2012 count of 14 million servers, its only gone up since)
Sony kills the online for games less than a year old. On a paid for service.
One could say....its only possible with the power of the cloud.
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Couldn't stand that on the 360. Glad they fixed it on X1 but they should definitely make it so you only need one gold account with BC games. It was ridiculous to begin with and even more so now.
That sounds promising for the successor to the Xbox Karen (from HR)... I can't wait for the Xbox Linda (from financing.)
Army of Two will be backwards compatible in January and gwg
Not too shabby of a lineup
Noticed dragon age inquisition has the import save feature so hopefully 2 is made BC soon so I can do a run through all 3
anyone who owns Driver (digital) been able to download to Xbox?
plays on my 360 but won't show on my X.
for those who have EA Acces, Black is in the vault now.
plays on my 360 but won't show on my X.
for those who have EA Acces, Black is in the vault now.
