Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead
64bithero@lemmy.world 5 hours agoNo matter how you slice it, it’s going to be emulation. And people will and already can emulate without Microsoft’s “experience”. I doubt it will even have an optical drive!
In fact I’d argue there is no reason to wait for their hardware. Buy or build something now. You can play all the same games. Get an emulator and do the same …
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Their emulation work is one of the few bright spots of the Xbox platform on the past decade. Things like FPS boost and Auto HDR are nice for improving older games. I’m not sure if any third party emulators can do the same, admittedly.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Third party emulation teams trying to keep older games alive are true heroes, but there is absolutely something to be said for the quality of a competent team of first-party engineers who have access to all of the original code and architecture documentation. Truly some magic they were able to pull off.