08 Apr
According to comments made by Xbox partner development lead Frank Savage, Microsoft has not ruled out Xbox 360 emulation on the Xbox One. Speaking at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco, attended by Kotaku, Savage was asked whether the company is planning Xbox 360 emulation on the Xbox One. “There are [plans],” Savage said. […]
14 Mar
Microsoft’s director of product management Albert Penello took to the NeoGAF forums to address rumors claiming that Microsoft was planning to lock out Xbox One controller compatibility on Windows PC. “This is 100% wrong,” Penello wrote, in part. “When the drivers become available, they will work with the existing controllers. There is no plan to […]
09 Nov
Speaking to Engadget, Microsoft’s senior director of product management Albert Penello has said that the Xbox One will not even be able to play disc-based games without a mandatory day one update. “Functionally, you will be able to do very little without taking the day one update,” Penello said, in part. “A lot of the […]
06 Sep
Speaking to Gamespot, Microsoft senior director Albert Penello said that the Xbox One could eventually offer backwards compatibility through its cloud servers in a similar way to what Sony is planning to do with its Gaikia service. “That’s one of the things that makes [the cloud] at the same time both totally interesting and hard […]