Discover how Xbox backwards compatibility, PS5 cloud saves, and Nintendo Switch save backup keep old games on new consoles playable with smooth cross-gen game support and protected progress.

Xbox ended its Backwards Compatible program in 2021 after reaching the limits of what's possible to bring over.

We haven't had backwards compatibility in our game consoles for very long -- around just two generations. The desirability of the feature is so widespread, though, that people are willing to follow ...

Xbox players across Windows Centra communities share which OG Xbox and Xbox 360 classics they want revived through backward compatibility.

In addition, once the games are made backwards compatible, every one of their DLC packs will be free to download, as well. This ensures that the player bases won't be fragmented and that every player ...

Xbox 360 title Geometry Wars Retro Evolved is once again available to play via the Xbox One's backward compatibility feature. Backward compatibility has become one of the Xbox One’s defining features ...

As part of Microsoft's 20th anniversary of Xbox broadcast, the company announced that 70+ additional original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles have been added to the backwards compatibility library in what ...

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John Bonelli is a news writer for Game Rant who's been writing about video games since 2017. He fell in love with gaming upon playing Fallout 3 for the first time in 2013; it's still his favorite ...

Microsoft announced that some original Xbox games would be made backwards compatible on the Xbox One back during E3 2017 in June. The company hasn’t released any details since, but Xbox head Phil ...

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