Microsoft revealed that the Xbox One may be backwards compatible one day thanks to the Azure cloud servers. The company's senior director Albert Penello, in an interview with Gamespot, acknowleged there were a wealth of functions that the cloud could be used for. Though Microsoft has yet to settle on which they want to explore first.
"Yeah, absolutely. That's one of the things that makes [the cloud] at the same time both totally interesting and hard to describe to people. Because what the cloud can do is sort of hard to pin. When you say to the customer, we want the box to be connected, we want developers to know that the cloud is there. We're really not trying to make up some phony thing."
"But there are so many things that the servers can do. Using our Azure cloud servers, sometimes it's things like voice processing. It could be more complicated things like rendering full games like a Gaikai and delivering it to the box. We just have to figure out how, over time, how much does that cost to deliver, how good is the experience."
IGN reports that neither the Sony PS4 nor Microsoft's Xbox One will support backwards compatibility, but Sony previously suggested that it plans to use Gaikai's streaming technology to make legacy content available for the PS4 at some point.
The Sony PS4 will be available November 15 and the Xbox One will be available one week later on November 22.
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