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You’ll finally be able to buy Xbox 360 games from your Xbox One

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The PlayStation 4 isn’t the only console that’s getting a big update soon. Microsoft’s Xbox One is getting in on the update action with a new update that’s gone live for Xbox preview members. Microsoft’s updates are, admittedly, far more frequent than Sony’s ones, so the changes they bring may not appear as dramatic.

There is one great big welcome change that’s headed to the Xbox One I the net update though. Users will finally, finally be able to buy backwards compatible Xbox 360 games through the Xbox One’s digital store. Yes, that includes the “free” ones that come as part of the Xbox Live subscription.

“Fans have spent more than 30 million hours playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One and so it’s natural that being able to purchase Xbox 360 Backward Compatible games on Xbox One ranks as one of your top requests. With this update, you’ll be able to do so,” it says on Major Nelson’s Blog.

“Find and purchase Xbox 360 backward compatible games the same way you would Xbox One titles and, once purchased, Xbox 360 Backward Compatible content will automatically download to your Xbox One and be ready to play.”

The rest of the new feature-set isn’t particularly interesting to me – but it includes an increase in party chat size, an increase in GameDVR length and a lot more community, gamerscore and social fluff.

Here’s a list of everything that’s coming:

  • Output your Party Chat to headset and speakers simultaneously: Xbox One Preview members will be able to select their preference for where Party Chat audio is heard: their headset, speakers, or both. To do this, go to Settings – Display & Sounds – Volume.
  • Customizable Game DVR recording length: Based on Xbox Feedback, it’s clear that fans want to be able to configure the length of their Game DVR recordings. Currently, Game DVR recording is fixed to a 30 second duration. With this update, Xbox One Preview members can adjust the recording length to 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 45 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes or 5 minutes. To change the preferences, visit Settings – Preferences – Game DVR & streaming.
  • Track Achievement progress in the Xbox One guide: We’re making it easier to access your Achievements by including them in the Xbox One guide. In the new Achievements area you’ll find a quick link to see all of your Achievements and you’ll be able to track your Achievement progress in real time directly in the guide, without having to snap a separate Achievements app.
  • Video playback directly in the Xbox One Activity Feed:We’ve made improvements to video playback in the Xbox One Activity Feed. Xbox One Preview members will be able to play an entire video inline rather than having to leave their feed to launch it. You can even ‘like’ the video while previewing it by pressing X. Preview members will also enjoy new pause, restart, and full-screen playback options, when they do choose to launch a video from their Activity Feed.
  • Gamerscore Leaderboard: In the Xbox app (beta), fans will be able to enjoy the same Gamerscore Leaderboard feature introduced to Xbox One last month. Access the Gamerscore Leaderboard in the Xbox app (beta) by navigating to the Achievements section of your profile. See where you stand relative to your friends by comparing total Gamerscore, as well as the biggest gains over a rolling 30-day period. A Leaderboard for game stats will also be coming to the Xbox app (beta). Visit the Game Hub for a title with hero stats, click on Achievements and see how you stack up against your friends.
  • Updated ‘Featured’ section: The ‘Featured’ gaming section below the ‘Recently played’ games area has been updated to spotlight games, deals, community events and more.
  • 16-person Party Chat: Last fall, we expanded Party Chat to enable 12-person Parties on Xbox One and the Xbox app. This feature has been very popular with the community, so now we’re enabling 16-person Parties across both Xbox One Preview and the Xbox app (beta) starting today.
  • Xbox 360 Achievements in Xbox One and Xbox app Activity Feeds: Starting this month for both Xbox One Preview and Xbox app (beta) participants, Xbox 360 Achievements will automatically post to your console and Windows 10 PC Activity Feeds. As with Xbox One game Achievements, the Xbox 360 Achievement graphic will feature a description of the Achievement, the game you earned it from, and the Gamerscore associated with it.
  • Follow web links and YouTube videos from Game Hubs:Community managers of Game Hubs will now be able to populate Game Hubs with web and YouTube hyperlinks, making the Game Hubs experience even more interactive and engaging for gamers. For Xbox One Preview members, web links will display in a browser via the Edge app and YouTube links will open in the YouTube app. For the Xbox app (beta), links will open in your default web browser. As with any other item in your Activity Feed, you can caption, like, comment on, and share these links.
  • Compare your Avatars: In Xbox One Preview shortly and releasing to the Xbox Avatars app later this month, you’ll be able to compare your Avatar with your friends’ Avatars. You can click through on a specific friend’s Avatar; preview their Avatar’s clothing, accessories and props on your Avatar; and also see how you can purchase or earn the items yourself. Using the ‘Compare Avatars’ feature will help you customize your Avatar leveraging the best of all your friends’ outfits! You can also compare your Avatar with anyone else’s in the Xbox Live community – just select ‘Compare Avatars’ when you are viewing another member’s profile.
  • Reputation rating interface changes: The Xbox Live community is comprised overwhelmingly of players with positive reputations, and so, the vast majority of profiles are rated ‘good.’ As a result, we are changing our reputation interface to draw attention only to players who have been rated ‘needs work’ or ‘avoid me’. For Xbox One Preview and Xbox app (beta) members, ‘good’ players’ profiles will no longer feature a reputation gauge, however, gamers whose profiles are tagged ‘needs work’ or ‘avoid me’ will continue to feature the reputation flag.

Last Updated: March 2, 2016

23 Comments

  1. Pieter Kruger

    March 2, 2016 at 11:34

    Fantastic, was a bit of a hassle to go onto the web to get those Xbox 360 GWG titles!

    Reply

  2. HairyEwok

    March 2, 2016 at 11:37

    So you’ll have to re-buy a game you have and played on the Xbox 360…. What happened to placing your 360 disc into the One and playing the game, oh wait it didn’t give Microsoft money if you did it.

    Is there complications to making it happen where you just pop in the 360 disc into the Xbox One and you can play the game?

    Reply

    • Ottokie vs the forces of Evil

      March 2, 2016 at 11:42

      I must give the Xbone one pat on the back. The controller is amazing…on my PC!

      Reply

      • oVg

        March 2, 2016 at 11:48

        It only took 10 years for PC users to finally admit that the xbox controller is better than a mouse 😛

        Reply

        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          March 2, 2016 at 11:54

          #NotAllPCUsers

          Reply

        • Commander Admiral Chief

          March 2, 2016 at 11:59

          He said it was amazing, not better.

          Damn old man

          Reply

          • oVg

            March 2, 2016 at 12:05

            lol

        • Ottokie vs the forces of Evil

          March 2, 2016 at 12:09

          We can use any peripheral xD

          It just so happens that most Indie games need a controller, so Xbox won the console controller award

          Reply

    • oVg

      March 2, 2016 at 11:47

      Just use an emulator on a… wait for it… PC!!! 😛

      Reply

    • FreddyBear

      March 2, 2016 at 11:51

      As far as I know you can just put the 360 disc into the xbone.

      Reply

      • Fox1 - Retro

        March 2, 2016 at 12:01

        The game then downloads the emulated version.

        Reply

      • Pieter Kruger

        March 2, 2016 at 12:06

        Correct!????

        Reply

    • Pieter Kruger

      March 2, 2016 at 12:06

      You again misunderstood(get coffee dammit!). All the backwards compatible games were not listed on the Xbox One store, you had to go onto the interweb to “buy” those GWG titles. Not necessary anymore and you can also straight out buy 360 backwards titles directly if you don’t already own the 360 game and should you now chose to do so(AKA PS4 “backwards compatibility”)

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      • Fox1 - Retro

        March 2, 2016 at 12:08

        Why do you even bother dude? 😛

        Reply

        • Hammersteyn

          March 2, 2016 at 12:21

          You know why
          *runs*

          Reply

    • RinceThis

      March 2, 2016 at 12:43

      hahaha

      Reply

  3. oVg

    March 2, 2016 at 11:46

    OR!!!… Press the on button on the XBOX360? OOPS I forgot, all Bone owners only had a TV before 😛

    Reply

    • RinceThis

      March 2, 2016 at 12:44

      Shame, they were upgrading!

      Reply

      • oVg

        March 2, 2016 at 12:45

        To watch the NFL on a console.

        Reply

  4. Jonah Cash

    March 2, 2016 at 12:10

    Now if only they would change their absolute joke of a store!! Make it into categories and let me see the price per game without having to go into the game and then starting at the beginning of the games again. Also for the love of Pete, just put you specials in one category, I don’t want to search the web to see the specials and then have to search for the game as well! It is stupid. Look at PSN, that is easy to search and has categories for everything.

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    • oVg

      March 2, 2016 at 12:20

      Trust me, you do not want the price advertised on the first page.

      The last four years of price increases is starting to pop.

      Reply

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