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In response to
"and other than mass effect they all seemed pretty crappy -- nm"
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This is why. From Forbes.
Posted by
Spawn
Jun 17 '15, 12:24
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Here’s what I understand from talking to Microsoft people at the conference: the emulation tech necessary to be able to slide any given Xbox 360 disc into your Xbox One is there, but legal issues and rights questions will hold some games back. Basically, publishers agreed to have their games sold on the Xbox 360, but not the One, and they’ll need to do that before their games can be played. As with anything where intellectual property rights are concerned, it’s not hard to see how this can get complicated.
In practice, this means that we should be seeing everything owned by Microsoft out pretty quickly: Gears, Halo, etc. It also means that all the major publishers will probably hammer this out just after — anyone with a continuing relationship with Microsoft has no motivation not to check that box, as apparently there’s no further development work that needs to be done. Games from defunct publishers or any games with a complex provenance might take a little bit.
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