On Monday, Microsoft confirmed their initiative to make the Xbox One backwards compatible with select Xbox and Xbox 360 titles is ending. According to the tech giant, Microsoft is terminating this initiative to focus on making current games functional on the next Xbox, which is presently known by its codename, Scarlett.
Jason Ronald, the platform’s partner director, discussed the decision on the official Xbox blog, writing, “We’ve listened closely to community feedback and respect the game libraries you’ve built throughout the last 18 years. That’s why we’re taking our work a step further and announced this week that thousands of games from all four generations will be playable on Project Scarlett. As such, we have now shifted our focus to help make the games you love playing on Xbox One compatible with future Xbox hardware. After this week, we have no plans to add additional Original Xbox or Xbox 360 titles to the catalog on Xbox One, but we’re excited to continue our work on Xbox compatibility across platforms and devices, which remains a top priority.”
These are the final games from the original Xbox that will become playable on the Xbox One and One X:
Moreover, these are the last batch of Xbox 360 games that will be updated to the Xbox One X’s 4K standard. Notably, all of these titles were developed by Rare, one of Microsoft’s subsidiaries.
And, finally, these are the last 360 games that will be made to work on the Xbox One and One X:
Too Human will be available to download for free. It was developed by the now-defunct Silicon Knights, best known for developing the critically acclaimed Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem for the GameCube under Nintendo’s guidance.
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