Backwards Compatibility now an offline affair

Microsoft has quietly tweaked the infrastructure of its shiny Xbox Sequence X {hardware} to now enable the enjoying of Xbox One video games with out the necessity for a web based DRM test.

The brand new “characteristic,” which is included within the console’s 2206 Replace, will enable Xbox Sequence customers to play their Xbox One video games in an offline capability. Beforehand, the console would all the time do a quick on-line handshake to make sure that the Xbox One recreation in query was an genuine, licensed title and never a copied disc — The Xbox Sequence S, being discless, clearly had no have to carry out this extra step.

Talking on Twitter, Xbox engineer and great-named particular person Eden Marie confirmed the replace.

“Sure, that is true for the reason that 2206 replace,” wrote Marie. “We examined information since Sequence X/S launch & decided the net compatibility test isn’t wanted within the overwhelming majority of instances for Xbox One discs. Some video games should have to be up to date on-line after set up to make sure the perfect expertise.”

Whereas it is a totally different state of affairs fully, one can’t assist however recall the PR catastrophe that occurred previous to the Xbox One console’s launch, the place Microsoft acknowledged that a web based connection was a compulsory demand for the enjoying of Xbox One video games, to make sure that the participant had certainly bought a license for each title. Whereas this could ultimately show to not be the case, there’s no denying by any means that the preliminary assertion was a Sword of Damocles over the model, and positively contributed to gross sales of Xbox {hardware} declining initially of the eighth technology.

The 2206 Replace is now reside on Xbox Sequence X/S platforms.