The first big announcement from Iron Galaxy and Microsoft was the reveal of Killer Instinct Anniversary Edition. This all-encompassing bundle includes all 29 characters, VIP Double XP Booster, and all other Premium Content ever released over the past 10 years. While the game is $29.99 for new buyers, Definitive Edition owners on Xbox and KI Steam players will be getting a free upgrade to the Anniversary Edition. Steam owners also get a permanent VIP Double XP Booster and Gargos’ Golden God and Argent Shroud colors as well. Finally, a base version of Killer Instinct will be free to play on Xbox consoles and PC, featuring one free weekly rotating fighter as well as Single-Player, Local, and Ranked modes.
It is nice that Definitive Edition owners on Xbox and KI Steam players will be getting a free upgrade to the Anniversary Edition instead of the need to pay more money to play the game.
No, that's not what this is. This game originally released as a Xbox One game. There is no "native" version of Killer Instinct for Xbox Series S/X. Up until now, all versions of Killer Instinct was considered a "backwards compatible" version for the Series consoles. This is basically them cleaning up code, and making it fully compatible with Series consoles.
IT. IS. And it still is. All this is doing is cleaning everything up for Series consoles. At least, until they put it somewhere like Game Pass, or the next Xbox console, which already has been leaked. The next console is considered a hybrid console/streaming console.
