Further update: Oblivion has now officially been added to Microsoft's Backwards Compatibility scheme. Fetch thine discs, breathe on them heavily, and give them the nurturing wipe of rejuvenation. Also joining the 360 to One party is Medal of Honor: Airborne, Astropop and Trine 2.
Update: If you thought the double whammy of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 being added to the backwards compatibility library in the same week of Black Friday discounts was too good to be true, then... it is.
Despite the listings published on Microsoft's Xbox website yesterday, community manager 'Major Nelson' tweeted later that the Modern Warfare 3 listing was actually an 'error' in response to a frustrated fan.
That's not to say it won't be coming to the Xbox One in the near future, but it probably won't be in time for Black Friday.
Meanwhile, news on Fable: Anniversary on Xbox One is non existent...
Original story: Xbox 360 games The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 are probably... no, almost certainly coming to Xbox One Backwards Compatibility.
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How did this secret information come to light? Well, let's just say that absolutely no Bothan spies died bringing you this information. It was posted on the Xbox website, where both games are now listed under the backwards compatibility scheme.
Ahem.
On the official Xbox One Backwards Compatibility site, Modern Warfare 3 is currently the fourth-most popular choice of games to be added to the scheme with 111,576 votes.
Oblivion isn't quite as popular, sitting at 14th with 52,711 votes, but the choice to bring the 2006 RPG to Xbox One is a tactical one. Skyrim currently sits at number two in the list, with 169,958 votes to bring it to Xbox One. There's just one problem: it ain't gonna happen. Doing so would hurt the sales of Bethesda's recent remaster of the more recent Elder Scrolls game in the form of Skyrim: Special Edition. The game was enormously popular, scooping up an estimated 22.7m+ sales, a large proportion of which were on Xbox 360, and as long as people are willing to pay, we can't see Microsoft, or Bethesda, prioritising accessibility of older versions.
We'll bring you more when the news is officially announced.
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