Surely Series S will be the target?
Goal should be something that makes the transition from Series to handheld as easy as possible with minimal if any dev work, that will require what’s pretty much an S in handheld form
If it’s not compatible with Series titles they shouldn’t bother at all
If the device is open store and runs Windows games, they might not be that concerned with lack of BC with Series S games.
The number of Series S games that’s are not on either Xbox One or PC is 0.
They might just give the entitlement for the Windows version of the few current gen only games.
But there are a number of Xbox one and 360 games that aren’t on PC that an Xbox Series S can play.
We’re talking Series S BC only.
There is no technical limitation to achieve Xbox One and prior BC.
Other than the licensing issues Microsoft isn’t likely to try to circumvent.
What is the licensing issue with an Xbox playing previous generation Xbox games? It can be an ‘Xbox’ that manages to be compatible with PC.
That would be best case scenario, but most people are going with an Xbox branded PC that can play all Xbox gens games through BC.
Yeah. I’m with you on this one too. I don’t think that will be the situation at all because of the legal license ramifications.
They would need HW BC to do that, which would make licensing problems go away.
Don’t see what the difference is. The user interface? A PC that launches an Xbox shell and is Xbox branded is an Xbox. I don’t expect we’ll be going into desktop mode on these things.
It’s one of those legalese matters, since developers/publishers signed the contract with Xbox to release their games on “Xbox Platform”. If there was no legal difference, then MS could release those same titles on general PCs, which may run counter to any contracts those same devs/pubs signed with EGS or GoG or Steam for exclusivity.
I think BC will be one of the major differentiators between the Microsoft branded box and using a third party box as a result. Who knows though.
Probably won’t be a differentiator for designed for Xbox third party handhelds and laptops that uses Microsoft made Xbox chips. I expect the Xbox handheld, gaming capable Surface laptops, and most of the OEMs in the gaming space to use the Xbox handheld chip.
I think as long as the BC needs HW support and thus a bespoke chip, it’s a Xbox platform.