The Xbox One's architecture -- equipped with a new x86 CPU -- prevents it from being able to run games designed for the 360's eight year old Xenon processor.
One of the more controversial bits of news to come out of yesterday's Xbox One reveal was the discovery that the newly christened console would not be able to play Xbox 360 games.
Gamache recently hired one of the developers of Microsoft's Xbox Live to see what else he can do with online multiplayer games.
It doesn't take much imagination to look down the road and see an Xbox 2 three or four years out, one that's fully compatible with older games but can also double as a DVD player-recorder and, with the addition of a big hard drive, a personal video recorder.
Microsoft's pre-owned game policy for their new Xbox One console has been a source of confusion and contention.
There's a reason why we recently recommended the Xbox 360 with Kinect as one of our top holiday gifts.
So far one of the biggest unanswered questions about the Xbox 360 is whether or not it's going to be backwards compatible with games for the original Xbox.
Microsoft's introducing a new Kinect motion-sensing camera to go alongside its new Xbox One game console.
In addition to running the production studio, she will help spearhead the company's efforts to turn Xbox into a destination where consumers can enjoy all their entertainment in one place.
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The Xbox 360, alongside Microsoft's entertainment industry partners, is at the forefront of that evolution as one of the only devices that brings all forms of entertainment together in one device, while making access to content easy and providing new ways to interact with existing programming.
There are wild rumors, and there are interesting rumors, but here's a doozy for ya: Xbox Live could soon start vending HD movie content, according to one freshly minted Wordpress blog (take that for what it's worth).
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