Backwards Compatibility facts

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When Sega was discontinuing the Dreamcast in 2001, Chairman Isao Okawa offered Microsoft their assets so that the Xbox could have backwards compatibility with Dreamcast games so the console could live on in some way. Okawa met with Bill Gates several times before negotiations fell through.

how backwards compatibility works xbox one?

The Nintendo Wii is unlike other consoles that it is actually backwards compatible with the GameCube.

What is xbox one backwards compatibility?

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what's backwards compatibility?

1. When making the Game Boy Advanced, Nintendo inverted every released Game Boy and Game Boy Color game into the system to make sure every single game was playable, to make sure backwards compatibility was working.

2. On older computers, the Turbo button actually slowed down the processor for backwards compatibility

3. Here I want so share you comparisson between PS5 specs vs Xbox Series X.
   
   

   
   
   

   	PlayStation 5	Xbox Series X
   Price	TBD	TBD
   Release Date	Holiday 2020	Holiday 2020
   Key Exclusives	Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon II: Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7	Halo Infinite, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
   Backwards Compatibility	Almost all PS4 games, including optimized PS4 Pro titles	All Xbox One games / Select Xbox 360 and original Xbox games
   CPU	8-core 3.5 GHz AMD Zen 2	8-core, 3.8 GHz AMD Zen 2
   GPU	10.3 teraflop AMD RDNA 2	12.0 teraflop AMD RDNA 2
   RAM	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6
   Storage	825 GB custom SSD	1 TB custom NVMe SSD
   Resolution	Up to 8K	Up to 8K
   Frame Rate	Up to 120 fps	Up to 120 fps
   Optical Disc Drive	4K UHD Blu-ray	4K UHD Blu-ray

4. MS Excel treats 1900 as a leap year (even though it wasn't) since it was easier to do that in the 1988 version, and they never updated it because of backwards compatibility, it would cause more problem than it would fix, and almost no one tracks 1900 and before.

5. The reason why 32-bit Windows libraries are in SYSWow64 folder is that WoW64 stands for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit. Also 64-bit libraries are in System32 folder for backward compatibility

6. Excel has a bug called "the leap year bug" that cannot be fixed due backward compatibility with Lotus.

7. The memory between 640kb and 1024kb are still reserved today, due to backwards compatibility with late 80s and early 90s PCs

8. Windows Uses Backslashes for Directories for Early DOS Backwards Compatibility

9. Background of the UTF-8 character encoding and its ingenious backward compatible design