Microsoft er ret vilde med bagudkompatibilitet, og i løbet af denne generation har de arbejdet hårdt for at skabe yderligere bro imellem Xbox One, Xbox One X og tidligere konsoller også. Det arbejde fortsætter med Xbox Series X, hvor Microsoft har lovet en meget direkte forbindelse imellem denne og tidligere generationer.
Det betyder blandt andet, at der det første lange stykke tid ikke kommer til at være nogle Xbox Series X-eksklusive titler, da alle førstepartsudgivelser automatisk også udkommer på Xbox One. Denne beslutning har vist sig at være lidt kontroversiel, så nu uddyber Phil Spencer hvorfor de arbejder på den måde.
I et interview med Gamertag Radio siger han følgende:
"Obviously we built our strategy with Series X, we started with that in mind - we wanted to go build a gaming console that was going to be the absolute best that we could deliver on a television, and deliver unique capability to creators that they could use to go create the best games. But you don't want to do that to the exclusion of everybody else and you also want to do that hand-in-hand with developers because developers want to find the widest audience possible. And yes, there are always trade-offs. I'm not gonna dictate to every third-party studio what they have to support, but what we see in today's world is that gamers want to go and play games with their friends regardless of what device those friends are on, people want to have the largest selection of games open to them, and developers want to make use of the best technology that's available."
Er du enig med Spencer, og kan dette også være en ulempe for Xbox Series X?