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Phil Spencer on Project Scorpio backwards compatibility: No “technical wizardry” required

15 Nov 2016
Steve Wright

In discussion with Phil Spencer in Sydney last month, the Head of Xbox explained how Xbox titles will run without effort on the upcoming Project Scorpio.

“We’ve very specifically designed it [on Scorpio] so Xbox games just run,” he said, referring to both Xbox 360 and Xbox One titles.

“It’s nothing like Xbox 360 backwards compatibility right now — there’s a lot of technical wizardry involved in that. We didn’t want to have to do that again.”

Project Scorpio is expected over the holiday 2017 season.

We’ve officially dubbed the second day of the work week #TuesdaysWithPhil — check here for more.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

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