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EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Forward compatibility? I get backward compatibility, but FORWARD compatibility?

[–] june 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s future backward compatibility.

[–] asteriskeverything 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

/r/shittytu... Okay, why isn't there a Lemmy version of Shitty Tumblr GIFs?

[–] chiliedogg 13 points 10 months ago

Ensuring that future titles have a preservation plan as part of the development?

[–] bigmclargehuge 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that just means not making any crazy technological decisions that will likely make games incompatible on future hardware. A great example was the PS3's cell processor. It was excellent tech when used properly, but absolutley not "forward compatible"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In fairness here, you can't predict the future.

Cell was just PowerPC as was the Xbox 360's Xenon chip. PowerPC is all but dead now, but the same thing could happen to x86 or ARM in the future. No king rules forever.

[–] bigmclargehuge 2 points 10 months ago

I suppose, but in my mind, unless an absolutely revolutionary technology takes the world by storm, the industry wouldn't just up and abandon x86 and ARM unless compatibility was decent. We're talking ablut a world where businesses still use Windows XP because their software won't work on later versions.

[–] EvolvedTurtle 8 points 10 months ago

I mean Computers basically kind of have it

I should be able to play any games that releases in the next 5 years on my current set up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Think of all the old games that are no longer playable because the master servers are no longer online.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Right? Like isn't that a joke in Homestar