An open letter was sent to Disney late last week by the author of the Xbox Game Preservation Resource, where players can vote for new items in the backwards compatibility program. They point out that there are more than 100 games based on the company’s Xbox and Xbox 360 intellectual property that have yet to be released on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, and there is huge demand for them.
Now a similar open letter from the same author Released to Warner Bros. Games. They note that since Xbox game saves launched this year, users have left more than 43,000 votes for 115 Warner Bros. games. game. on the portal Created a separate section Information about Warner Bros. games. game, which clearly shows the audience’s interest in the return of the company’s projects. Key takeaways from the above statistics:
- The Warner Bros. Intellectual Property Project game collected a total of 43,236 votes from 14,945 players.
- Of greatest interest is the catalog of Warner Bros. itself. Games – 55 games with 23,612 votes. These include “Mortal Kombat”, “Batman: Arkham”, “Area 51”, “Gauntlet”, “The Suffering”, “Stranglehold” and other projects.
- Another 30 games with licensed intellectual property received 12,847 votes. These include LEGO Dimensions, Middle-earth, Harry Potter, The Matrix and Condemned.
- A game based on the Warner Bros. animated series received 6,179 votes, and a project with a sports league license received 598 votes.
Warner Bros. Games’ most popular games:
- Most importantly, players want the franchise to return Mortal Kombat. The six series of games received a total of 9,093 votes from 4,045 players, accounting for approximately 21% of the total votes for Warner Bros. projects. game.
- most popular Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monk Received 2,695 votes, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon With 2,550 votes, Mortal Kombat: Deception Received 1,753 votes, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance Received 1,361 votes. Meanwhile, four of the most popular parts of Mortal Kombat have never been officially released on PC.
- Ten of Warner Bros. Games’ most popular games are also included Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate — 1,662 votes, lego dimensions — 1 626, Death Row 2: Bloodshot — 1 397, batman begins — 1 276, Area 51 – 1,054 and The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (The game recently received a remaster) – 987.
Note that Warner Bros. Games isn’t completely abandoning backwards compatibility. In particular, many of its projects are already available in the program – Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Fear, The Fear Files, Batman: Arkham Origins, LEGO Lord of the Rings and others.
There are rumors that Microsoft may expand the number of games in the backward compatibility program this November, announcing the news at the Xbox 25th Anniversary Show. Let’s remember that Xbox Game Preservation is not an official Microsoft resource, but representatives of the company’s gaming division have looked at it before.
