We know that Microsoft is hard at work on its next Xbox console, which Xbox president Sarah Bond has claimed will be “delivering the largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation.” And while I’ve little doubt that the next Xbox console will impress when it comes to cutting-edge visuals, it’s what the company is planning for its prior generations that has me most intrigued.
Bond also recently confirmed, via internal emails, that Xbox has “formed a new team dedicated to game preservation,” which suggests that the company will continue to embrace one of its strongest suits: backwards compatibility. Xbox has always been impressive on this front, offering genuinely forward-thinking features like performance-boosting patches and Xbox Cloud Gaming compatibility with a handful of games.
