Microsoft has formed a separate team to ensure backwards compatibility of older games with modern platforms and next-generation consoles

Backwards compatibility has already become an integral part of game consoles. Users of today's platforms want to have constant access to games from previous generations and Microsoft, as well as Sony, gives them that opportunity.

The new president of Xbox Sarah Bond understands the importance of backwards compatibility and plans to pay even more attention to it.

Here's What We Know

The media reported that Sarah Bond sent out an internal email reminding her colleagues of the importance of keeping older games accessible to gamers, both for current users and future generations, and said that Xbox has formed a separate team dedicated to making sure older games work on modern platforms and their subsequent iterations.

This is important for all of us at Xbox and the industry as a whole. We're building on our long history of backwards compatibility and are committed to bringing a great library of Xbox games to future generations of gamers.

Windows Central sources said that Microsoft may reveal a new look at the development of backwards compatibility and similar technologies at the Xbox Showcase, which unconfirmed information suggests will take place on 9 June.

Source: Windows Central