Microsoft Ends Backward Compatibility Efforts for Original Xbox and Xbox 360 Titles

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Microsoft has spent quite a bit of energy translating original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles so they can be played on the Xbox One.

The backward compatibility catalog has amassed an impressive 600 titles thus far, but the company admitted that no more games would be added aside from today’s final collection.

That’s because the Xbox team is shifting its focus to making the current library compatible with Xbox Scarlett, its next console capable of 8K graphics and frame rates as high as 120 FPS.

New Original Xbox games playable on Xbox One:
  • Armed and Dangerous
  • Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb
  • Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
  • Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
  • Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
  • Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
  • Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
  • Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict
New Xbox 360 games enhanced for Xbox One X:
  • Banjo-Kazooie
  • Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts
  • Banjo-Tooie
  • Kameo Elements of Power
  • Perfect Dark
  • Perfect Dark Zero
  • Viva Piñata
  • Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
New Xbox 360 Fan-Favorites:
  • Asura’s Wrath
  • Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
  • Enchanted Arms
  • Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
  • Far Cry Classic
  • Far Cry Instincts Predator
  • Infinite Undiscovery
  • Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
  • Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands
  • Skate
  • Star Ocean: The Last Hope
  • Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
  • Syndicate
  • Too Human
  • Unreal Tournament III
Too Human is available digitally to everyone for free.

We’ve listened closely to community feedback and respect the game libraries you’ve built throughout the last 18 years. That’s why we’re taking our work a step further and announced this week that thousands of games from all four generations will be playable on Project Scarlett. As such, we have now shifted our focus to help make the games you love playing on Xbox One compatible with future Xbox hardware. After this week, we have no plans to add additional Original Xbox or Xbox 360 titles to the catalog on Xbox One, but we’re excited to continue our work on Xbox compatibility across platforms and devices, which remains a top priority.
 
Nice to see Too Human there. I played the demo and enjoyed it, but never got around to buying it since it came out around the time I was looking for work. Then the lawsuit happened. Hopefully they'll continue to add more titles for Scarlett. I would really like to see the original Forza and Everything or Nothing for original Xbox
 
The only thing I remember from that Peter Jackson's King Kong game was this: As long as you played through the entire game, you unlocked every Achievement for that game (easy Achievement points!).

During those early 360 days, it felt like I spent way too much time trying to rack up Achievement points.
 
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