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A day of surprises at the start of E3

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The leaks didn’t spoil the Electronic Entertainment Expo after all.

Microsoft started the day out big, having already announced a price cut and new hard drive bundle the week before. But it also surprised us with the announcement of backwards compatibility of the Xbox One with Xbox 360 games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.