The app lets users watch live CBS broadcasts and on-demand video easily through their Xbox One, bringing the service out for the relatively competitive fee of just $5.99. According to Digital Foundry’s report, all titles receive some baseline improvements – such as the elimination of screen tear “completely on every title” – through to any disc access operations tending to “have less of an impact on performance”, meaning Mass Effect’s elevator load times and Fallout 3’s hitches are reduced.
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Joust is the second game to be introduced with Xbox One backwards compatibility this week, following Call of Duty 2 (with an improved frame rate) which launched in Tuesday. It’s great to see the July NPD as a result.
The Xbox One’s backwards compatibility library adds another title today.
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“We just kind of focus on what we’re doing and how we’re performing”, he said.
Yesterday, Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, said that the lineup of games for Project Scorpio “is shaping up very well”, although he preferred to keep the details for another day. Of course, some games will probably never make it to backward compatibility, especially if the publisher has a remaster to sell, so that means gamers wanting the complete Call of Duty collection on Xbox One will probably have to purchase the Call of Duty 4 remaster this fall.
Back when it was released, I played the game on PC, largely because the Xbox 360 had yet to be released at that point.
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The Xbox One version is obviously the same Xbox 360 version, running through emulation.
