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Watch it not even be able to play native 360 titles due to the architecture. Gears of War 2 and 3 will be locked to consoles forever if that happens.
Reminds me of all the posts that say "but can it run crysis?"
Some games are just really difficult to emulate without original hardware.
The Xbone and Xbox SeX can play 360 games just fine, and they are essentially PCs running modified Windows.
Right, but you cannot play those two games on PC. So if the new console PC hybrid uses Windows, I don't forsee those games running. I may be missing something though.
The newer Xboxes already run Windows. MS could distribute their 360 emulator on regular Windows.
Ahhhh, very good point. I wonder if they just didn't feel it was necessary to do, or there was some technical hurdle in the way. Here's hoping they can get something going and maybe bring it to Win11 too so then the Linux guys can get to work on making it compatible.
I wouldn’t worry to much about that. Microsoft can build out additional emulation to support those games. Now how much of they can pull from what’s been done with Xbox One / Series that remains unclear.
They can always “borrow” from the foss community and just use their emulators.
I wouldn’t expect the same upgrades you saw with the old back compat catalogue. But hopefully it’s as functional as it was on its OG hardware.
But whatever they do I know the community will be able to improve upon for the whole PC space to utilize without needing to pay Shitsoft for it …
Xbox 360 emulation is getting better, so it would be playable on pc.
Don't be silly, they'll be happy to make a vibe coded remaster for it and charge $80 a piece.
$119 a piece, don't forget about those poor shareholders.