![]() Perhaps the lack of backwards compatibility will be good for business there. "This isn't about getting rid of the Xbox 360," Whitten said. Microsoft does, however, plan to keep selling the Xbox 360 alongside the new console for the foreseeable future. ![]() When we specifically asked Whitten whether the company had any streaming option or download option for existing Xbox 360 games for the Xbox One, he confirmed that there was no such thing in the works at Microsoft. ![]() Of course, Sony's PlayStation 4 has the same problem: Sony also chose to move to x86 from PowerPC, and the PS4 also won't directly support PS3 games.īut while Sony is promising that PlayStation 4 users will indeed be able to play PlayStation 3 games at some point, by streaming them from the cloud, Microsoft is not promising any such thing for Xbox One. Games designed for the Xbox 360's Xenon processor simply won't run natively on the new hardware, since the Xenon used a PowerPC architecture instead. Today, the company confirmed months of rumors that the new Xbox would use an x86 CPU. ![]() Technologically speaking, it's not wholly a surprise that backwards compatibility is off the table. ![]()
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