Next Year Marks A Decade Since Xbox’s Genius Backwards Compatibility Program

Anyway, in just over a week or so, we’ll be into the 10th year of modern Xbox back compat being a major console feature for Microsoft, and we’re still hugely grateful for it in 2024. These days, it goes without saying that new console hardware will work with older games – but that was a much more uncertain prospect back in 2015, and our Xbox experience has been massively improved over the years thanks to its existence.

Do you remember this massive E3 announcement? Still make use of Xbox’s BC program today? Talk to us about it all down in the comments.