In an interview that Aaron Greenberg gave to GameSpot, he claimed the following:
“[…]There’s tens of millions of Xbox 360 fans that are out there that are still playing on Xbox 360 and they’re waiting for the right time and the right reason to migrate over to Xbox One. Whether they’ve been waiting for the first true next-gen Halo with Halo 5 or if they’ve been waiting for solutions like backwards compatibility, we do expect to see a pretty massive migration this holiday of those fans. And being able to continue to get the value in the game purchase you’ve invested and take that value with you to Xbox One is the key idea behind that and we’re excited to deliver that for fans.[…]”
He also talked about backward compatibility where he mentioned that “we’re doing everything we can to make our first-party games lineup available. And on the third-party side, we’re making this available to all our third-party partners to participate.”
Only time will tell if Microsoft expectations will become true.
Source: GameSpot
João is a games journalist, Senior Editor at XDA Developers. They contributed 156 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: previously reported for Neowin before joining XDA Developers in 2021, where he leads coverage of Windows, Microsoft, and hardware.