Immediately, we’re introducing XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC, making it simpler to play traditional XBOX video games from the previous throughout PC and handhelds, together with the ROG XBOX Ally and XBOX Ally X.
Your library is greater than only a assortment of video games. It’s your private historical past of epic tales and treasured recollections from the previous. And as gamers, we don’t need to go away our gaming legacy behind at the same time as know-how continues to evolve and advance. We anticipate our library of video games to maneuver ahead with us and to have the ability to play them in fully new methods.
Rolling out as we speak, XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC launches in early launch, beginning with 4 traditional unique XBOX video games, now playable on PC and handhelds for the primary time ever. This marks the start of a broader effort to protect XBOX video games from the previous and convey them to PC over time. And we aren’t simply enabling you to play them on PC. We’re additionally including new options to make your gaming expertise higher than ever.
Gamers can soar into the next video games on PC and supported handheld gadgets starting as we speak in supported areas:
Every of those video games is now accessible for buy on PC and likewise included with all XBOX Recreation Cross plans. For those who already personal a digital license for these video games on console, that license now carries over to your PC or handheld. By means of the ability of XBOX Play Wherever and XBOX Cloud Gaming, now you can play these traditional video games from the previous in your XBOX console, cloud, PC and handheld.
Along with making these video games accessible on PC for the primary time ever, we’ve added new options to boost the expertise on PC whereas preserving the unique gameplay. Gamers can customise graphics settings, together with as much as 4x decision upscaling, VSync assist, Fullscreen and Windowed show modes, anisotropic filtering, enhanced anti-aliasing, and extra. These video games additionally embrace customizable language and audio settings.
We plan so as to add much more options to XBOX Backward Compatibility video games sooner or later. I’m excited to share that later this yr we can be bringing one of many prime fan-requested options to pick out unique XBOX video games on each console and PC: Achievements. The primary 4 video games releasing in preview as we speak can be up to date to incorporate Achievements within the coming months.
Getting began is easy. In case your PC or handheld meets the minimal system necessities beneath, you’ll have the opportunity to entry backward suitable titles by way of the XBOX on PC app.
Minimal Necessities
- GPU: Nvidia GTX 950 or AMD Radeon RX 550 or Intel Arc A310
- CPU: 4 cores and eight threads | Intel Core i3-10300 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100 or AMD Ryzen Z2 A
- Drivers and Variations: Newest Model as of January 2026
Really useful Necessities
- GPU: Radeon RX 6800S or Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti or Intel Arc A770
- CPU: 6 cores and 12 threads | Intel Core i5-10400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Excessive
- Drivers and Variations: Newest Model as of January 2026
XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC is one other step towards preserving the video games from the previous and making it simpler so that you can take pleasure in and play extra of the video games you already personal throughout the gadgets you utilize day-after-day.
Editor’s Observe (July 22): We’ve up to date the minimal/really helpful specs.
