Why Red Dead Redemption is not yet playable on the Xbox One

(I'm really busy this week so this is going to be a single article, on that note, lets begin)

Welcome one and all to this weeks article!

Article one: Why Red Dead Redemption isn't playable on the Xbox One, yet.

 


As you all should know unless you've been living under a rock, Microsoft announced backwards compatibility for the Xbox one. However Red Dead Redemption the second leading game on the Xbox's One's poll for what games players would like to see on the Xbox One, is not on the list for the first batch of compatible games.

See the full list for the first batch of compatible games here: http://343i.org/38k

But why has it not been added? Well read this article and find out!
(Its something to do with the licensing agreements)

"After the technological breakthrough that got backwards compatibility working, the next step was to figure out how to license all this content, originally released on Xbox 360, for Xbox One," Microsoft engineer Richard Irving told Eurogamer. As you can imagine, publishers have cut very specific deals on some of that content. For example Madden you can imagine how many licenses go into a game with the players, the NFL, sponsors, and so on. And there's over 1000 games at this point on Xbox 360."

Irving said it "didn't seem fair" to ask publishers to go out and obtain licenses for these games without knowing if there would be demand for them. So to that end, Microsoft opened a voting portal on its Xbox Feedback website where fans could demonstrate their interest in any games that ever came out on the Xbox 360. Armed with that information, Microsoft then reached out to publishers about specific games and said "Please let us know if this is something you can do" Irving said about obtaining the required licenses.

He then added that, ultimately, it's publishers who decide if they want to approve their Xbox 360 titles to be playable on Xbox One. This obviously takes times, which is why Microsoft was not able to deliver all of the top 50-100 most requested games.

On the subject of Red Dead Redemption specifically, Irving said, "We're definitely engaged with all of our publisher and developer partners including Rockstar (The developers of Red Dead Redemption) on when and how we can deliver on that fan feedback."

Previously Microsoft said they would be supporting hundreds of backwards compatible games on the Xbox One so it looks like all hope is not yet lost and Red Dead Redemption could be coming in the future!

Thanks for reading everyone!

Source one: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-red-dead-redemption-isnt-playable-on-xbox-oney/1100-6432291/