Xbox One backwards compatibility news coming this week

It looks like we’ll finally be getting some news on what additions will be coming to the backwards compatbility program next week according to Phil Spencer. What exactly it is, however, we can only guess.

Phil responded to a tweet about backwards compatiblity games like Red Dead Redemption by saying “Looks like you should hear some news next week”. Now, it seems like he was referring more to the games in general as opposed to Red Dead Redemption specifically, but what games could we hear about?

In the recent voting that Xbox has instituted, for some odd reason Black Ops 2 is ahead of Red Dead Redemption. What that reason is I am not sure as Red Dead is a much better game. As far as the rest of the list is concerned, the current top ten requested games are:

• Black Ops 2
• Red Dead Redemption
• Skyrim
• Modern Warfare 2
• Halo Reach
• Black Ops
• Gears of War 3
• Fallout 3
• COD 4 Modern Warfare
• Modern Warfare 3

The fact that half of the top ten requested games are Call of Duty is evidence enough that the list needs some serious reworking. Microsoft has noted that just because people vote on games does not mean they will be added as developer permission is still needed. We’ll have to wait until next week to see what Phil has in store, but fingers crossed for Red Dead Redemption

@JoshLuck1995 Looks like you should hear some news this week.

— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) August 19, 2015