Red Dead Redemption Releases On Xbox One Via BC This Friday

Cherry Expressionless Redemption will exist released for Xbox One equally role of the console'south backwards compatibility plan this Fri.

Rockstar Games announced the news on their official website less than an hour ago.

Today we're happy to announce that Red Dead Redemption volition be released every bit role of Microsoft's Xbox One Backward Compatibility plan this coming Friday, July eighth.

Starting on Friday, every Ruddy Dead Redemption Xbox 360 owner will be able to play the game directly on their Xbox 1, regardless of which version of the game they own (Red Expressionless Redemption, Undead Nightmare and Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition). And for those who accept yet to experience information technology, the game will be bachelor to purchase on Friday from the Games Store on Xbox One.

Stay tuned to the Newswire for more details.

Interesting to note that the Xbox 360 game is currently on sale likewise on the Xbox Marketplace.

Rumors near the game being added to the Xbox One's BC list already surfaced earlier this twelvemonth when an epitome displaying the title on Xbox One was uploaded to IMGUR. Cherry Dead Redemption has been i of the most predictable titles to be added to the backwards compatibility list since the feature was launched. Back in Nov of 2022 Microsoft explained why Red Dead Redemption wasn't nonetheless available via the BC feature. According to the company'due south program director, Richard Irving, information technology had something to with licensing problems.

"After the technological breakthrough that got backwards compatibility working, the next footstep was to effigy out how to license all this content, originally released on Xbox 360, for Xbox One," Microsoft engineer Richard Irving told Eurogamer. "As you tin imagine, publishers have cut very specific deals on some of that content. For example Madden–you can imagine how many licenses go into a game with the players, the NFL, sponsors, and and then on. And there's over 1000 games at this signal on Xbox 360."

It would seem that these licensing issues take now been resolved.