Halo: Reach Doesn’t Run Very Well On Xbox One

These are the most exciting Xbox One games for 2016.

If you own an original 360 game that is supported by the Xbox One, all you have to do is pop it in your console and you’re good to go.

If you hoped to get one of Microsoft’s new Elite controllers for your Xbox One this holiday season but got left empty handed, you probably weren’t alone. We’re continuing to work with our publishing partners to grow our library of Xbox One Backward Compatibility titles, so stay tuned for more.

But what is generally gathered from the market isn’t always correct; for Microsoft it proved to be a wrong indication of how much inventory they were supposed to manufacture. “We expect more units to arrive at retailers each week but supply may be limited through March 2016”.

A smaller Xbox One was in development at Microsoft in 2013 when the console was launched, but the plans were eventually put aside.

The reason for this shortage is because Microsoft itself believed the $150 price tag would be too high to attract a large set of consumers. One of the more interesting pieces was the following about the Xbox One.

We’d understand your frustration if you said how awful you felt without this device at hand, but there isn’t really anything that you can do about it, rather than wait it out.

Another surprise coming from the last Gamescom, Halo Wars 2, the second chapter in the acclaimed real time strategy franchise, is coming next year as a Microsoft first party game for Xbox One. I could see voice command, like the Kinect offers, with out the game console being useful, but…well, we will see how this shakes out.

The single player campaign allows four-player co-op, and that’s the ideal way to play Halo 5; so if you haven’t played it yet, grab three friends before you do.

While a typical hardware redesign seems inevitable for the bulky Xbox One, that’s not what we’re talking about here.