Half of the users play Xbox One games for Xbox 360

50% of Xbox One console owners use the backward compatibility feature with Xbox 360 games.

This was announced by the head of the Xbox marketing department Mike Nichols (Mike Nichols). According to him, approximately half of the owners of the latest generation of Microsoft consoles play Xbox 360 games on it. In total, they spent about 508 million hours behind them.

“Usually people launch one or two backward compatible games a day on Xbox One. Quality is quality, regardless of the generation,” commented Phil Spencer, Head of the Xbox division, on this statistic.

The study is based on data from 1 million Xbox Live users.

This information refutes the data on the low demand for the backward compatibility feature among Xbox users. A few days ago, the leading web magazine Ars Technica reported that Xbox One owners devote 1.5% of all time spent on the console to the games of the previous generation.

Microsoft introduced Xbox One backward compatibility with Xbox One in 2015. Since then, about 300 titles from the Xbox 360 catalog have been adapted for the latest generation console.

The upcoming Xbox Scorpio project is also expected to be backward compatible with the One and 360.

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• Source: Games Industries