The chief marketing officer of Xbox is contesting reports of Xbox One users largely ignoring backward-compatible Xbox 360 games, revealing that gamers have logged more than 508 million hours of gaming on older titles. He also states that 50% of gamers have played a backwards compatible title on their console. Even Phil Spencer has chimed in, saying that “quality games last and are worth playing”: usually, there are one or two backwards-compatible titles in the daily list of top-played games.



Earlier this week, a report claimed that Xbox One owners “largely ignore” the console’s backwards compatibility functionality. Now, Microsoft has responded. Xbox chief marketing officer Mike Nichols shared some data points on Twitter about backwards compatibility usage. He said around half of all Xbox One owners have used backwards compatibility, accruing more than 508 million collective hours playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One. This is up from 145 million hours in August 2016 and 210 million back in November 2016. The feature launched in November 2015.

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