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## Transcript

[ BLANK_AUDIO ] Hi, it's Larry Hryb Xbox Live's Major Nelson, one of the exciting features coming to Xbox One this holiday is of course backward compatibility. I'm here with Richard Irving from the Xbox Engineering Team. Hi, Richard. Hello. Now we've all seen fans online saying how excited they are. For this, right? That's right. It's the one of our most requested, if not, most requested feature, and we're incredibly excited to bring it to fans this holiday. Richard, we've talked about the basics of how this work. But let's talk about some of the more advanced features that you're going to get on Xbox.

Xbox One. Sure, maybe one of the most important things is that you're going to be able to continue playing with your friends who are still on Xbox 360. You do that via the Xbox 360 guide, which is available for every Xbox 360 game, on the Xbox One, you just press the view in the menu button on your controller anytime during game play And you see the familiars Xbox 360 guide. Comes right out there. That's right. There's some other cool things we can do with it as well like I can be able to stream my Xbox 360 games without any additional equipments. So while the Xbox 360 games you're playing through emulator but we kinda took the integration of Xbox One a step further to enhance your experience when you play that.

Game on your Xbox One. So you'll be able to take screenshots, record DVR clips and you can Twitch broadcast your Xbox 360 game from Xbox One. Perhaps the most meta experience of all, you'll be able to stream your Xbox 360 games from your Xbox One to your Windows 10 PC or laptop, through your Xbox app. So let's go over that again, you'll be able to, on your Xbox One You are emulating your Xbox 360 games streaming it over your home network to your Windows 10 device. That's right. That is indeed the future. There's a lot going on there, we've got over 100 titles coming this holiday and hundreds more to follow.

Richard Ivry, thanks so much for telling us about backward compatibility and how to work with Xbox One. [ SOUND ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

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