Xbox E3 2015

E3 2015: Backwards Compatibility Comes to Xbox One

Team Xbox dealt a real crowd pleaser at today’s E3 2015

Xbox E3 2015
Backwards compatibility brings 360 games to Xbox One owners

conference, as it announced backwards compatibility on Xbox One. Finally, gamers will be able to play Xbox 360 games on their next gen console.

The announcement was met with whoops and cheers at the Xbox press conference. Games purchased digitally will begin to pop into your Xbox One library, as they become available. Xbox 360 discs will initiate a download on Xbox One. During the show, the new compatibility was demonstrated with Mass Effect

Preview members gain access to backwards compatibility immediately, but all players will gain access to 360 games in the holiday season.

Microsoft is running its full press conference on its own xbox channel.

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Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.