Comment on EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility

Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  IDK, MS really went all the way with backwards compatibility. They literally built emulators for the 360 and OG Xbox in order to let people play old games.

  I’d be shocked if they didn’t stay committed to this.

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  • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope I’m wrong but companies are about cutting good ideas for short term gains.

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  • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Series S doesn’t have a disk drive.

    The rumored Series X refresh doesn’t have a disk drive.

    It’d be hard for Microsoft to remain committed to game preservation in that way without them.

    To me, this sounds more like they’re looking at Nintendo’s virtual store playbook and wondering how many times they can sell the same games to their customer base.

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    • SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Series X refresh isn’t a rumor, and it doesn’t have a disk drive. Microsoft also laid off their physical media dept entirely.

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  • bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That was seemingly really only to dunk on Sony and secure another year of sales.

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• bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They could stand to make a bunch of money reselling old games with 4k, vrr, HDR, and calling it remastered.

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  • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They could which sounds like this team or they can make do the GTA route and make a masterpiece again.

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