<![CDATA[Email: Xbox Backwards Compatibility]]>Funny thing about Xbox backwards compatibility – the Xbox One uses an x86 cpu just like the original Xbox, and yet Xbox One cannot even play original Xbox games? Considering that even the 360 with it’s PowerPC CPU supported some original Xbox games via emulation, this makes me think the lack of backwards compatibility is a deliberate decision by someone to not support older-gen games and not because of hardware compatibility.
Heck because the CPU architecture is the same, they wouldn’t even have to use emulation – they could use virtualizatoin. This is even funnier because Microsoft already makes an x86 virtual machine – Microsoft Virtual PC!
This is a good point.
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