New Box, Old Companions: Xbox Series X’s Generational Shift

Defining the next generation, Xbox Series X comes with backward compatible games

Game boxes are the thing of past. As gamers, we know how and why we keep the old games still intact. Mastering the old game like a king is the time to relive the nostalgia. From our favourite cards, stamps, franchises, achievements and the friendships we create – all add up to our Gaming experience, over the years.

Heads Up! Backward compatible games to run natively on Xbox Series X

Microsoft plans to make games compatible across four generations
Xbox Backward Compatibility
New Xbox Operating System

While tech upgrades happen almost on a daily basis, the hardware keeps changing to better our experience. There is always a chance to struggle with the compatibility of previous versions. Not only software but also our favourite gaming accessories and peripherals need the new update.

Well, not anymore!

Through a worldwide community, that shares palpable feeling of togetherness. Gaming has worked its wonders, attracting creative people who took the industry to the next level of revolution. From heart-wrenching storylines and epic experiences as our favourite heroes, to the heat of the competition, defeat, betrayal and victory.

Xbox Backward Compatibility

Developers from across the world have been associated with the Xbox Series X development. The next era of transformative Gaming solution is here with ‘backward compatibility.’

Microsoft has planned to make games compatible across four generations of gaming. Backward compatibility facilitates interoperability with an older legacy system. Meaning, Xbox One gaming accessories, Xbox gaming legacy, and industry-leading services like Xbox Game Pass to work with Xbox Series X.

Backward compatible games will deliver faster load times, steadier framerates, improved resolution, and visual fidelity owing to the power and performance of Xbox Series X.

For fans and gamers alike, this will be a boon to have been playing the best version of their games on the Xbox Series X without glitch of worry.

New Xbox Operating System

“Our 15 Xbox Game Studios teams are hard at work creating the biggest and best line up of exclusives in Xbox history. We are incredibly excited to show many of the new games in development for Xbox Series X soon,”
Jason Ronald, Director of Program Management for Xbox Series X

One of the key technical challenges Xbox blog mentions was to maintain compatibility through chip architectures and advance cross-generations functionalities as a fundamental system.

To make the Xbox Series X the most compatible console ever required the approach of developers for significant innovation in processor as well as the unique design of the Xbox operating system with its alien-green hypervisor at the heart of the next generation platform.

Owing to the new tech-advancement, the company has leveraged its older games that are backward compatible on Xbox Series X with enhanced updates.

Which include Hardware Accelerated DirectX Ray tracing (DXR), SDR to HDR Conversion with improved colour depth and Xbox Wireless Protocol to reduce latency is within the communication between controller and console.

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