The Ubisoft Games XBOX Players Want to be Backward Compatible
A measurement, not a petition.
XBOXGamePreservation.com asks players a single question: which Original XBOX and XBOX 360 games do you want to be able to play again via backward compatibility on modern XBOX consoles? This page pulls out every game Ubisoft published on those two consoles, and looks at what it owns, what it licenses, and where the demand actually sits.
What is XBOX backward compatibility?
It's the program in which Original XBOX and XBOX 360 titles are given the green light by publishers and rights holders to let XBOX make them playable, and often buyable, again on current XBOX consoles. For rights holders, the key requirement is approval. XBOX handles the technical work required to bring supported titles to modern consoles.
In July 2026, that program expanded to PC: the same approval that brings an Original XBOX game to modern consoles can now also make it playable on PC. That expansion currently covers Original XBOX titles, and fourteen of them here never had a PC version at all, from Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu to 187 Ride or Die. Approval could bring each to PC for the first time. Those fourteen are marked ▸ PC debut in the full list below.
Prince of Persia leads, but Ubisoft's demand runs in several directions.
Ubisoft represents 114 games and 16,063 votes, from 7,148 of the site's voters, roughly 1 in 13. The demand splits across four buckets: the franchises Ubisoft owns outright, the film, TV and comic-book properties it publishes under license, games it published for other studios, and Just Dance and Rocksmith, franchises Ubisoft owns but whose setlists are licensed music.
* Licensed from an outside media, character or estate owner. ** Belongs to another company entirely, the studio that made the game, or a rights holder that bought it outright. Games are never combined across platforms: a title released on both Original XBOX and XBOX 360 is counted once on each. Voters do not sum across rows: someone who backed more than one tier is counted in each. Titles already backward compatible are counted separately.
Prince of Persia accounts for 15.3% of all Ubisoft demand.
Two Prince of Persia games draw 2,461 votes between them, the single largest franchise on the page, the second and third entries in the Sands of Time trilogy. Neither is backward compatible today:
Four other Prince of Persia games are already backward compatible, the precedent already exists for the franchise.
Just under half of all demand is for properties Ubisoft owns.
6,665 votes across 44 games are for franchises Ubisoft owns outright, so bringing them back may involve fewer outside rights-holders. Ranked by total votes.
Ubisoft's owned catalog also runs through Watch Dogs, The Crew, Trials, Valiant Hearts and Child of Light, all listed in full at the end.
More than a third of Ubisoft's demand sits behind someone else's property.
46 games on this page, 6,599 votes, were published under license from a property's owner rather than built on Ubisoft's own IP. Naruto is the single biggest, split across Rise of a Ninja and its sequel The Broken Bond. Behind Naruto sit Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, James Cameron's Avatar, Peter Jackson's King Kong (Original XBOX), and Batman. Each of these would likely need the property owner's approval on top of Ubisoft's.
Ubisoft's licensed catalog also runs through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Open Season and Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth, all listed in full at the end.
Seventeen Ubisoft games are already compatible, but can't be purchased digitally.
17 titles are already backward compatible on modern XBOX consoles but have been delisted from the XBOX store, so they can be played only by people who already own them. For these games the ask isn't backward compatibility, it's for the ability to buy them again.
Prince of Persia is the largest single-franchise opportunity, but it isn't the only one.
The 16,063 votes come from games Ubisoft owns outright, properties it licenses, and games it made for other studios. Prince of Persia alone accounts for 2,461 votes, but the rest of the owned catalog contributes another 4,204 across 42 more games, led by Tom Clancy, Far Cry and Blazing Angels.
How the demand splits
Five specific games worth bringing back first
The franchise-level view groups sequels together, which is useful for seeing where the demand sits, but it isn't a shipping list. Ranking every game on its own, regardless of bucket, gives a different answer. Each row below is that single game's share of all 16,063 Ubisoft votes on this page, or 30.4% of total cumulative demand.
* Licensed from an outside media or character owner. These five titles alone cover 30.4% of all Ubisoft demand on this page.
That creates several distinct preservation opportunities: a flagship franchise in Prince of Persia, where most of the franchise is already backward compatible; a wider owned catalog running through Tom Clancy and Far Cry; licensed properties with demonstrated demand; and a set of already-compatible games, including the rest of Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed, that could return to the XBOX Store. The votes provide a map of where players are asking Ubisoft to look next.
Method and caveats.
Every figure here is a direct count from the site's public vote data, filtered to games Ubisoft published on Original XBOX and XBOX 360. Games are never combined across platforms: each release on each console is counted on its own. Titles already backward compatible or delisted are set aside and counted separately, not folded into the demand totals.
Publisher and rights notes were checked title by title, to the best of my ability via public information. "Owned" means Ubisoft holds the underlying IP; "licensed" means it publishes the game but the property belongs to someone else. Tom Clancy's sits under owned because Ubisoft acquired perpetual rights to the name in 2008, a materially different arrangement from an ongoing license. Classification reflects the corporate and publishing relationships applicable to the individual title and does not imply that no additional rights clearance would be required. Vote counts measure interest, not a commitment to buy, and feasibility depends on agreements that are not public.
Every Ubisoft game on the site, grouped by ownership.
All 114 Ubisoft games behind the demand figures on this page, grouped by what the company owns, licenses or published for others, with platform and vote count. The already-backward-compatible titles that are not available for purchase are listed last, apart from the demand totals.
Every Ubisoft game on the site across Original XBOX and XBOX 360, excluding titles already backward compatible, which are counted separately. Games are attributed to Ubisoft and classified as owned, licensed or published to the best of my knowledge from public information; the specific terms of the underlying agreements are not public.