Discover how Xbox backwards compatibility, PS5 cloud saves, and Nintendo Switch save backup keep old games on new consoles playable with smooth cross-gen game support and protected progress.

It's been many years now since Xbox's backwards compatibility program officially closed down in terms of new additions, but ...

Xbox ended its Backwards Compatible program in 2021 after reaching the limits of what's possible to bring over.

Xbox players across Windows Centra communities share which OG Xbox and Xbox 360 classics they want revived through backward compatibility.

While at one point we may have thought the Xbox backward compatibility program was finished, we learned that wasn't the case during the Xbox 20th Anniversary event this week. Microsoft announced more ...

Nintendo has finally revealed everything about the Nintendo Switch 2. We know all the launch details, and that includes how backward compatibility will work. But on that note, backward compatibility ...

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Valve's taking a lot of risks with the Steam Deck. The company has been quite up-front about the fact that it's a full-fat handheld PC, and while this comes with its own set of compromises, it also ...