Microsoft is reportedly exploring backward compatibility for Xbox 360 games on Windows, which could extend to Windows-based handhelds such as the ROG Ally line, as well as the company's next-gen console. That's according to a well-known leaker who also shared additional details about the alleged Xbox initiative.
Microsoft actively invested in Xbox 360 backward compatibility throughout the Xbox One era, regularly releasing updates for its 2013 console that enabled access to an expanding library of last-generation titles via either digital licenses or physical game discs (which still required a download to play). However, the Xbox backward compatibility program officially ended in November 2021, with the company citing licensing, legal, and technical constraints as the chief reasons it had reached the limit of what could feasibly be added.
The Xbox 360 is officially 20 years, and to celebrate, I replayed all the games that were available for it at launch back in 2005.
Four years later, there is reportedly renewed movement on the Xbox 360 backward compatibility front. In early December 2025, well-known leaker NateTheHate wrote on the ResetEra forums that "there exists a hope to make legacy Xbox (OG and Xbox 360) games BC on ROG...
