Xbox One Original Xbox Backwards Compatibility Detailed

He did, however, point to Xbox 360 backwards compatibility and how “the Xbox One version of those games has actually become in many places the definitive version,” and how they’re “seeing the same thing with the original Xbox games coming to Xbox One.”

During today’s Xbox E3 press conference, Microsoft announced that backwards compatibility for original Xbox games will come to Xbox One later this year, and Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has since elaborated on the forthcoming support.

As far as pricing for third-party original Xbox games, Spencer said, “we don’t control the pricing for third-party games, we never have.