A spurious image has been making the rounds and implying
that you can use the Xbox One’s developer tool menus to make the Xbox One play
Xbox 360 games. Problem is, the image is dead wrong and you could brick your
Xbox One. Don’t do that.
Earlier this week, the inputs that let you access
the Xbox One’s developer menus surfaced. This is the stuff that’s going to let game-makers everywhere use their retail
consoles as games creation stations. And the instructions in the Backwards
Compatibility Image sound like the kind of thing that will magically make
Microsoft’s newest game hardware into a last-gen + current-gen unicorn.
https://kotaku.com/you-can-access-the-xbox-ones-developer-tools-right-now-1475047835
To be clear there is no way to make your Xbox One backwards compatible & performing steps to attempt this could make your console inoperable
— Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus 📱⌨️🖱️🎮 (@majornelson) December 6, 2013
But Xbox exec Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has warned Xbox One owners against
messing with the dev tools. The tempatation to make your new XB1 machine into a
two-in-one purchase is understandable. But who wants to roll the dice and wind
up with a broken machine?
[via NeoGAF]
