The battle for top console is one that's constantly shifting, but Xbox One has a leg up on the competition: backwards compatibility. Set to make waves with an update soon, Xbox revealed a new game to feature backwards compatibility: "Burnout Paradise."

According to a report on Game Spot, Criterion Games has confirmed the game's playability on Microsoft's new generation console. The developer answered a query on Twitter regarding "Burnout Paradise" making it to Xbox One, saying, "Yes there was, and yes it is... It's in the pipe, five-by-five. Stay tuned for a date though."

"Burnout Paradise" is a racing video game that was released in January 2008 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was released one year later for PC. The game received positive feedback from critics, receiving several awards and succeeding in introducing open world gaming to the "Burnout" series.

The report from Game Spot revealed that although the feature backwards compatibility is only currently available to Xbox One for Preview Program members, it will be part of the impressive update that's coming soon that includes the New Xbox One Experience.

According to an official release in Xbox Wire, the New Xbox One Experience offers "the faster and most social Xbox experience ever." This re-imagined update will bring the power of Windows 10 to the console, plus offer new features such as backwards compatibility, an efficient Guide for navigating the different applications, a redesigned Home page and a new community section to make gaming more interactive and shared among players. Players can be updated with their favorite media through OneGuide and an optimized Store will be more efficient than ever.

In a recent interview with Video Gamer, Xbox One head Phil Spencer reiterated the process behind the backwards compatibility feature, saying, "We didn't know back compat would work. We started it. A few ninja engineers went off and figured it out, how do you go from PowerPC to X86 and translate game code that's about as time-critical as any piece of code that you would want in terms of its performance, and they got it done."

Touching on the competition between Xbox and PlayStation 4, he added, "So I would never question the ability of our organisation, but I'll say we're not motivated by beating Sony, we're motivated by gaining as many customers as we can."

Currently, over a hundred games are included in the backwards compatibility lineup of Xbox One, but more are expected to be announced in the future, according to the report from Game Spot.