Halo 5 is an "Important Milestone" for Xbox One

"The game looks great, feels great, 60 frames per second."

According to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, Halo 5: Guardians release is an "important milestone" for the Xbox One.

"It's easy to say that an Xbox generation never really starts until you have a purpose-built Halo game, and this is Halo 5 from the ground up for Xbox One launching," Spencer said, as reported by DualShockers. "It's an important milestone for us with Xbox One. The game looks great, feels great, 60 frames per second and it feels for smooth when I'm playing."

Halo 5, technically is not the first Halo game for Xbox One, as Halo: The Master Chief Collection launched last year. But that game featured remastered versions of older games.

Spencer also talked about what Microsoft is doing to encourage Xbox 360 players to transfer to Xbox One.

"Our largest base out there right now is still 360 players," he said. "When we thought about this fall, we thought about what we could do for the 360 players. We obviously started with backwards compatibility announce at E3, we had the re-release of Gears 1, old Rare games with Rare Replay, but Halo, Halo is so important. Without Halo, Xbox isn't here.

"To be able to bring Halo with backwards compatibility, with Gears, with a Forza game… This line up for us was really tailored for the Xbox fan, this fall," he added. "And I'm really proud of the way the team stepped up. This is what it's all about."

The update which will introduce backwards compatibility support on the Xbox One will launch on November 12.