Microsoft har under många år satsat stenhårt på bakåtkompatibiliteten för Xbox One och många spel från original-Xbox samt Xbox 360 fungerar därför som bekant till Xbox One. Till kommande Scarlett fortsätter de bygga ut detta "legacy"-system, och en intervju hos GamesRadar berättar nu Xbox Game Studios-chefen Matt Booty att Scarletts arv gör att den redan från start kommer ha ett gigantiskt bibliotek av spel:
"I think we want people to feel comfortable investing in Xbox. And whether that means that this holiday you're going to go buy an Xbox One S or next fall you're going to go buy a Scarlett - you're going to feel comfortable either way. And that content library that you invest in is going to go forward [with you], so that you don't have to feel like you're making a choice between generations, right? I think that's really important to us."
Det här tror Booty kommer vara en stor fördel för den som skaffar sig Xbox Scarlett:
"We want - when you invest in Xbox - to know that you're bringing that legacy content library with you. It's why we think we've got an advantage with Project Scarlett, because our goal is that any game that runs on an Xbox One will run on Scarlett. You're not porting to a different operating system; you're not porting to a different graphics API; you're just running an Xbox game, right? So we hope that that's a big advantage in terms of our initial content library."
Även Sony har bekräftat bakåtkompatibilitet för Playstation 5, men om det inkluderar äldre konsoler än Playstation 4 återstår att se.
