Turn back time
Rarely does backward compatibility feel so thematically appropriate. Xbox One users keen to re-experience a bygone era of Xbox 360 games now have a new (but also old!) opportunity to replay a game set 75 years ago.
Battlefield 1943is the newest addition to the Xbox One backward compatibility program. The multiplayer-only shooter was a novel curiosity at the time. Electronic Arts took a risk on a $15 digitally-releasedBattlefieldthat didn’t have a single-player campaign. It paid off wonderfully.Battlefield 1943was the best-selling Xbox Live Arcade game of 2009.
The timing of this announcement isn’t surprising. Just yesterday,EA formally revealed this year’sBattlefieldgamewhich also takes place during World War II. There is a noticeable trend of backward compatibility being used as a tangential crutch to support upcoming releases.
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