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EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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See you in 3 years when the whole team is cut. You know, for not making any money.
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 using old disks they already owned.
I'd be shocked if they didn't stay committed to this.
I hope I'm wrong but companies are about cutting good ideas for short term gains.
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.
Series X refresh isn't a rumor, and it doesn't have a disk drive. Microsoft also laid off their physical media dept entirely.
That was seemingly really only to dunk on Sony and secure another year of sales.
They could stand to make a bunch of money reselling old games with 4k, vrr, HDR, and calling it remastered.
They could which sounds like this team or they can make do the GTA route and make a masterpiece again.