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Xbox's popular Backwards Compatibility service is a niche fad and won't last.That's the verdict of Shahid Kamal Ahmad, former Director of Strategic Content for PlayStation.He reckons most gamers don't really want to play old Xbox 360 games on their Xbox One.And he believes Xbox bosses would do better to concentrate on giving their machine a new 'vibe' with fresh games, rather than bringing back old titles from glory years gone by.

“I’ve seen a lot of things come and go. I’m not a great believer in backwards compatibility."I think that each device should have its own repertoire, its own “vibe.” As for whether publishers should charge for it or not, well that’s really a matter for them."Ahmad said backwards compatibility, while always making for a great marketing bullet point, is rarely ever practical for mostly anybody beyond a niche.“If you look at film and music, those are different categories entirely. "Obviously if I’ve paid for a tons of CDs and vinyl, then I don’t like to pay again for the digital streamed version, which is why I think iTunes Match is such a neat idea," he told Gaming Bolt.

"Amazon have done a great job of allowing your previous CD purchases via Amazon to become instantly available in your cloud collection. "That’s smart, but I bet they had to pay the publishers for that. It’s a great consumer benefit."With film too, if I’ve bought a Blu-ray, I don’t want to pay again for a streamed version, but you know what? I do. I’d bought the Bond collection on DVD, but when it became available on Apple TV, I bought it again, no hesitation.""If I want to enjoy the originals, I still can. I can dig out my old consoles, or my CD player, or my DVD player, but do I really want to?

"It becomes more and more of a niche.

"An important niche, no doubt, but we are enjoying the benefits of technology and that means we often need to move with the times.”

The comments come the same week as five new games were added to the Xbox One Backwards Compatible library.

There are now more than 150 games available to play via Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One.

However some of the most requested such as Red Dead Redemption and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare are still yet to be added.