*Clarifies* I doubt the story is true, but in the very unlikely case that it is true I think the games would run natively or you would need a super computer the size of a house to emulate the games.Originally Posted by Gir
*Clarifies* I doubt the story is true, but in the very unlikely case that it is true I think the games would run natively or you would need a super computer the size of a house to emulate the games.
A game that runs natively on a PC is a PC game, that's the point I was making.
If you compile a 360 game to run on a PC that's not a 360 game running on a PC it's a PC game.
This is related to what i said earlier, you aren't going to be able to put your 360 disk in your pc and play the game, your going to be able to buy a game for the 360 and download a pc version on windows 8.
Emulated games, ported games, same thing! A PC game is a game that was written for, developed on and for PC. Not a game that was developed on a console and then recoded a bit to work on PC.
Anyways, if these rumours are true, then cool. Realistically though, the only game I would like to play that is Xbox exclusive is Alan Wake. None of the other exclusives stand out for me. But I don't see this happening personally, as this would hurt sales of the actual Xbox 360 sales and MS will not lose money and ground to Sony that easily.
No- I don't think its true. The emulation environment will be very tricky on PCs especially since they've gone past DX9. I think XBOXes are cheap enough and that people want to play XBOX games will just go out and buy the console.
if they have found a way that you cant crack the xbox games on the pc it thinks its possible but then you have guys like razor out there and they can crack anything, so no its not happening, maybe the code that they see is just so that you can track your xbox live account from windows 8
Sorry but that comment makes it fairly clear you are wholly unfamiliar with the technical aspects of games development.Emulated games, ported games, same thing! A PC game is a game that was written for, developed on and for PC. Not a game that was developed on a console and then recoded a bit to work on PC.
No-one makes games on console, every game is developed on a PC (not sure about Mac tbh) and then compiled for their target platform. If you use something like XNA game studio the difference between generating something you can play on your 360 and generating something you can play on your PC is a single button. Middleware game engines like Unreal Engine 3 or id Tech 5 are designed so you can deploy your game across multiple platforms with minimal effort.
By your definition any game whose lead platform is not the PC is a console game so by that standard you've already played console games on your PC, games like; Gears of War, Fable 1/2/3, Mass Effect 1/2, etc...
The difference between emulation and porting is VAST and no-where close to the same thing. Emulation involves running some sort of hardware abstraction where you are 'tricking' the game into thinking it is running on its native platform. Porting is taking something that was designed to run natively on one platform and re-coding/compiling it to run natively on another.
So games like Minecraft, Torchlight and The Witcher 2 have or are being ported from PC to 360 (not emulated)and I would't say the 360 can now play PC games. :P
I doubt that, I think we get this idea that console emulators require high resources because they are developed by 3rd parties who have to reverse engineer the console's software to build the emulator, where as MS knows what they are doing, they built it, and any modern gaming PC is at least (over all) 50% more powerful then the Xbox 360
MS makes their money from game royalties
that lame
well considering the fact that to emulate a ps1 that runs @ 33mhz you need a rig thats atleast 1.4 ghz with 512 megs of ram (to emulate it at decent speeds) what do you think will be required to emulate a triple core multithreading 3.2 ghz cpu (thats not even the hybrid graphics card included which would probably be a mother of a mission to emulate on current nvidia cards (current ati cards have more or less the same architecture as the xenos gpu in the 360) ?
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I am somewhat confused by this concept. I am an avid xbox gamer and i love to play on the xbox rather than the pc. BUT it has to be said that pc games generally look better than the console games. I do love good graphics. BUT my point is why would people want to play an Xbox title on a pc? surely they could just get the pc version that would look nicer? personally i find that playing on a console gives me a better feel for the game. E.G Dragon Age or Oblivion. both games are fantastic on both console and pc but for shear looks the pc is better for these kind of games. so why?
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