Backward compatibility with Xbox 360 games, Minecraft for HoloLens, and more. News from E3 2015.
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Today has been a very important day for the Xbox One thanks to the large number of announcements made by Microsoft during the video game event E3 2015. Our colleagues from SamaGame and SamaGame have been following the conferences live, but here we offer you a compilation with all the news related to Microsoft and their gaming platforms (plural, because they’ve also talked a bit about gaming on Windows 10 and HoloLens).
Perhaps the most powerful and surprising announcement has been the Xbox One backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games, something that had been discarded by Microsoft itself at the beginning of the war for the next gen, but that now becomes a reality thanks to an interesting emulation system developed by the company. This feature is available now for Xbox One preview users, and will be expanded to the general public in the coming months.
Backward compatibility with Xbox 360 games is here to boost Xbox One sales
This measure seeks Boost Xbox One sales by incentivizing Xbox 360 users to upgrade, who might have concerns about upgrading to the next-gen and losing their collection of previous-gen games.
The compatibility with Xbox 360 games It will work with both optical disc titles and those purchased digitally. In addition, it will allow to preserve the achievements, add-ons and saved games of Xbox 360, there will also be full compatibility between both generations for the multiplayer game, and support for new Xbox One features (like screenshots) in old games.
Unfortunately, backwards compatibility will only be available for 100 Xbox 360 titles at first, although it will be expanded to more games later.
Xbox Game Preview, a Steam Early Access for Xbox
Another interesting novelty announced for the Xbox One is the possibility of testing games “in the green”, before they are finished, thus saving the most fanatic players, and giving more feedback to developers to improve their titles with a view to launch. official.
The first games that will be available under this modality are The Long Dark and Elite: Dangerous, and DayZ will also be added soon.
Creating virtual worlds with Minecraft and HoloLens
Or this is why Microsoft paid $2.5 billion for Mojang. Although initially the buy minecraft by Redmond left everyone a bit perplexed, especially considering the recent emphasis on productivity that the company is having, with the demos shown at E3 everything starts to make more sense.
And it can not be more clear that the future of Minecraft within Microsoft is closely tied to HoloLens virtual reality. Redmond’s idea is that we can use these glasses to explore the world of Minecraft as if we were present within it, projecting the video game into the real world thanks to holographic technology, and interacting with it through voice commands and gestures.
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Xbox Elite Wireless Controller, a new controller to play like never before
After having renewed the “traditional” control of the Xbox One, by including a 3.5 mm audio output, Microsoft took advantage of E3 to announce a new “premium” control that stands out for its modular design, which allows us to swap the position of the front and rear controls. It also allows you to reprogram the different buttons in order to have a more personalized gaming experience, and promises us a higher precision level compared to normal command.
Best of all, this controller will also be compatible with Windows 10, thanks to the new Xbox Wireless adapter announced a few days ago.
The Xbox Elite Wireless controller should hit the market in the coming months, although for now the price at which it will be launched is unknown.
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Exclusive games for Xbox One and Windows 10
Although new software and hardware often steal the headlines, the highlight of E3 events has always been the video game ads and trailers. Microsoft knows this, and that is why it took advantage of its conference to show previews of many titles, such as Halo 5, Recore, Forza Motorsport 6, The Division, Gears of Wars 4, Rise of Tomb Raider, and many more.
However, something that has been different this time is that Microsoft is announcing exclusives for Xbox One and Windows 10, not just for your console, which will also offer multiplayer mode between both platforms. Within these titles are Gigantic and Ion.
Kinect: the great absentee
After having been the protagonist of other Microsoft conferences at E3, this year the Kinect sensor has gone completely unnoticedto the level that it was not mentioned even once during the entire event.
It was already clear that Redmond had regretted its attempts to turn Kinect into a mainstream accessory, but it’s surprising that it is starting to be ignored so much. Is there still a future for Kinect? Perhaps it can be “resurrected” in the near future, when the adoption of the Xbox One is greater, and families interested in an accessory that facilitates casual gaming appear (just as it happened with the Xbox 360).
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