Xbox Series X: Backward Compatibility with Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Xbox

It won’t be for games. Microsoft already held a digital event (somewhat controversial due to the lack of gameplay) in which they showed all the news from third parties that will arrive with Xbox Series X at launch or at a later time in 2021. But if you still had left You doubt what you will be able to play with the new console when it is put on sale. The brand has explained today all the technologies that will be applied to improve the backward compatible experience that will allow us to enjoy the new platform.

Play all the games you already have

Xbox Series X: Backward Compatibility

Considering that the 15 studios that make up the Xbox Game Studios are working on creating new games, the company has added more fuel to the fire, confirming the advantages that the Xbox Series X will offer when playing with backwards compatible games. For this, the Redmond have made it clear that they maintain a great deal of respect for your current library, regardless of the console generation, so they decided to offer backward compatibility with both games and accessories from the four existing Xbox generations.

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This philosophy brought no less than 500 Xbox 360 games to Xbox One, along with a good number of other games from the original Xbox. With the idea of maintaining this service, Xbox Series X has been designed to also offer this feature, so from launch day 1 it will offer backward compatibility with previous generations.

Performance improvement

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As if that were not enough, this backward compatibility will move away from a simple emulation, since technologies such as the Xbox Velocity architecture that takes advantage of the performance of the integrated SSD will serve to improve the performance of games in terms of load times.

To make matters worse, the frame rate per second will remain more stable than ever and the rendering will reach higher resolutions, achieving a superior visual appearance than the original. In the official press release, Microsoft assures that certain games will be able to double the speed of images per second, going from 30 images per second to 60 images per second, and even some other games will be able to jump from 60 images per second up to 120 images per second. Almost nothing.

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And also with better graphics

Xbox Series X caracteristicas

But it doesn’t end there. Obsessed with improving the backwards compatibility experience, the new console will be able to take graphics to a new level, as the console will be able to offer an HDR reconstruction technique that will apply HDR to those games that did not originally include it.

This will completely change the gaming experience, as games that are almost 20 years old could run at high resolutions and with HDR effects. It is something that could surprise enormously.

Play when you want and how you want

To all this we must add the possibility of enjoying the quick summary, or Quick Resume, which allows us to leave the game and be able to continue where we were going regardless of the moment or the scene. A kind of fast hibernation that will allow you not to miss anything at any time.