Scorpio will have Xbox 360 backwards compatibility, Microsoft confirms

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Microsoft has been positioning its upcoming Scorpio console as a continuation of the Xbox One family rather than its successor, and today we got more confirmation of that philosophy. According to Xbox platform engineer Mike Ybarra, not only will Scorpio play Xbox One games, it'll also be backwards compatible with the Xbox 360 titles that have been made available on the platform (like Red Dead Redemption up there):

"Moving to a different CPU - even if it's possible to avoid impact to console cost and form factor - runs the very high risk of many existing titles not working properly," Cerny said. "The origin of these problems is that code running on the new CPU runs code at very different timing from the old one, and that can expose bugs in the game that were never encountered before."

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