Xbox One: 10 Big Changes That Would Actually Make It Worth Buying
2. Deliver The Back Catalogue
If you're anything like a PC gamer with Steam you likely have a veritable library of Xbox Live Arcade games sitting either on your Xbox 360 hard drive, or out there in the cloud waiting to be re-downloaded. The 360 was really the first time games of any worth could be downloaded digitally on a console, and many classics - Bastion, Braid, Terraria, and oh yeah - Minecraft, took full advantage of the distribution stream. Surely, many gamers thought, these games will transfer over to the next console - it's how that works now! Which was a dumb (but optimistic) thought as Microsoft never said this was the case. Silly us for thinking content purchased digitally would transfer over digitally to the next iteration of the device - like say, every smartphone and tablet (and Steam game) ever, right? Also when you consider the fact that Xbox 360 games are cheaper and more readily available now than ever, it may just be in a gamer's best interest to simply take the money they'd spend on a new console and load up with literally hundreds of awesome (deeply discounted) 360 games. Recently Borderlands 2, Lego Batman 2, and Batman: Arkham City could all be purchased on XBLA for about the price of a super-sized fast-food meal. Meanwhile the Xbox One collects dust, frustrating family members who cant access Netflix the right way. The one thing the Xbox One does 100 percent correctly right now is play games, and there arent nearly enough to play or on the horizon. At E3 if Microsoft gets up on stage, announce complete, account-tied backwards compatibility with all previously purchased XBLA titles, they suddenly gain the lead in the so-called console war by delivering fond favourites on the new console, keeping eyeballs on the Xbox One and people in front of that Kinect camera while gamers happily game their time away as the next generation of consoles finally gets into full swing.
