Microsoft plans to add HDR and 60 fps support for older games in Xbox Series X

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With the new Xbox Series X due coming this year, Microsoft is planning to bring HDR and 60 fps support to older games that are not compatible for higher frame rates and Higher Resolution originally, Microsoft will make this happen at the hardware level so developers won't need to change or add anything from their side.

With this, previous games that run on 30 fps will be boosted to 60 fps and 60 fps games to 120 fps, previously gaming consoles only supported up to 30 fps but as they are improved, Microsoft has made this possible in older games to make them more relevant and enjoyable in these days of smooth and high-resolution gaming.

Jason Ronald, Director of Program Management for Xbox Series X shared the news on the website of Xbox. Along with the increased frame rates in legacy games, Microsoft is also working to increase backward-compatible games and a new feature "quick resume" which will let gamers resume their games from the moment that they left off.

Backward compatible games are older Xbox games that were released since the first-ever Xbox console which were tuned to be compatible to play on the latest Xbox consoles even after the console architecture was improved since then, Jason Ronald says that "Maintaining compatibility presents a massive technical challenge as fundamental system and chip architectures advance across generations."

With the next-generation Xbox Series X, comes 15 exclusive Xbox games, the details of these games are not revealed yet but Jason promised that they will reveal more about the technology behind the upscaling and the 15 exclusive titles of the Xbox Series X as they near the release of Xbox Series X in the holiday season of this year.