Great if you already own dozens of Xbox 360 games and are hankering to play them on a more powerful system, and great for Microsoft in vastly expanding its content library on the Xbox One! Not so great if you're looking for something new. It was also an announcement of old games for a (basically) dead console coming to a new console. The announcement was huge news for the tens of millions of Xbox 360 owners, many of whom have yet to pick up Xbox One consoles yet. Microsoft's Xbox press conference kicked off on Monday morning (June 15th), and firmly cemented the week's theme with a surprise announcement: the ability to play Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. (Nintendo, for its part, isn't competing with emerging technology – Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Polygon last week, " based on what I've seen to date, it's not fun, and it's not social – it's just tech.") This all felt particularly strange when juxtaposed with forward-looking virtual reality technology from those same companies: Microsoft made its "Minecraft" game series come to life (literally) with its HoloLens headset, and Sony announced a massive library of VR games heading to its PlayStation 4-based Project Morpheus headset. Nintendo, unsurprisingly, announced game after game starring characters that were created 20 to 30 years ago. Microsoft's hottest announcement? The ability to play your old Xbox 360 games on your new Xbox One console. The biggest cheers were for the announcement of a remake of a game that originally launched for the PlayStation 1 back in 1997. Sony's PlayStation keynote address, however, felt like it ended at some point in the late 1990s/early 2000s. This year's annual video game industry trade show, E3, just ended last week. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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