The Xbox Scorpio is meant to represent the future of console gaming for Microsoft. A console that goes beyond generations thanks to it having enough hardware under the hood to be confused for a Borg Cube on the warpath. Pretty much anyone who wants one of those consoles, is looking to have a gaming experience that will melt your face off with five billion hyper-frames per second of 9 trillion K four-dimensional gaming*.
It’s the hardware of tomorrow…and it’ll be capable of playing the games of yesterday on it.
That’s according to Scorpio engineering lead Mike Ybarra, who hit the Twittersphere yesterday to confirm Xbox 360 backwards compatibility for the 2017 console:
360 Backwards compatibility will of course work on Scorpio. #xbox https://t.co/0jtSyIIXaH
— ??ike Ybarra (@XboxQwik) November 1, 2016
And that makes perfect sense. As Xboss Phil Spencer mentioned at E3 this year, the path going forward for the Xbox brand is to create an eco-system of shared ideas for their consoles, that doesn’t hover on one specific generation of gaming. “You hear us talking about thinking beyond console generations. It’s not the idea that you don’t want to do consoles anymore or that there’s not going to be more performance [in the future with new systems],” Xbox executive Albert Penello said back in August.
But if you go back and look at console generations, they’re always super exciting when something new comes out, but they’re super disruptive.
They’re really hard on developers, because they have to learn how to program on these new machines; they’re really hard on customers, which I think sometimes people forget. You have to give up a lot of stuff. The idea [for Scorpio and the future] is, can we smooth that out, can this be more about a family, can we think beyond, ‘We’re gonna do this one and then stop and then start all over again.’
As for the list of backwards compatible games, the Xbox One now has access to over 350 of them, with the JRPG classic Blue Dragon being the latest arrival.
*Actual and more accurate numbers may be massively different.
Last Updated: November 2, 2016
b1nd3r
November 2, 2016 at 15:37
this maybe the evil corporation of yesteryear but they listen and understand gamers better than most these days. Not a console gamer but clearly they are on the right path.
Admiral Chief - Dragonborn
November 2, 2016 at 15:37
Agreed
Skyblue
November 2, 2016 at 20:58
Well summed up. I have been super impressed with MS’s direction the last few years.
HairyEwok
November 3, 2016 at 08:27
All things console wise they’re doing right, It’s Windows 10 they made a big floppy disk.
Admiral Chief - Dragonborn
November 2, 2016 at 15:37
Good
Original Heretic
November 2, 2016 at 15:38
Starting to think that perhaps I need to get me a Scorpio.
Andre Fourie
November 2, 2016 at 15:42
I would love to, but my wife will most definitely try and decapitate me in my sleep.
Original Heretic
November 2, 2016 at 15:43
Which head?
Andre Fourie
November 2, 2016 at 15:46
Methinks the main part of my carry on controller, but that would be like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Original Heretic
November 2, 2016 at 15:50
Well, my wife WILL cut my balls off if I get a Scorpio!
HvR
November 2, 2016 at 15:55
“There you do not need them any longer play with, do you?”
Original Heretic
November 2, 2016 at 15:59
Did your English break down while you were typing that?
Andre Fourie
November 3, 2016 at 08:07
Having a stroke while typing this?
Andre Fourie
November 2, 2016 at 15:39
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RinceThis
November 2, 2016 at 20:58
Ohhh, that is a game changer…
Skyblue
November 2, 2016 at 21:01
It’s a whole lot better than tossing out your favourite games every time a shiny new console arrives.
RinceThis
November 2, 2016 at 21:18
damn straight!
Cl0uds
November 3, 2016 at 06:59
But will there be mouse and keyboard support???