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EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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Forward compatibility? I get backward compatibility, but FORWARD compatibility?
It’s future backward compatibility.
/r/shittytu... Okay, why isn't there a Lemmy version of Shitty Tumblr GIFs?
Ensuring that future titles have a preservation plan as part of the development?
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"
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.
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.
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
Think of all the old games that are no longer playable because the master servers are no longer online.
Right? Like isn't that a joke in Homestar