Reminds me of all the posts that say “but can it run crysis?”
Some games are just really difficult to emulate without original hardware.
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THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
64bithero@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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 …
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Don’t be silly, they’ll be happy to make a vibe coded remaster for it and charge $80 a piece.
Nugscree@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
$119 a piece, don’t forget about those poor shareholders.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Xbox 360 emulation is getting better, so it would be playable on pc.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 15 hours ago
The Xbone and Xbox SeX can play 360 games just fine, and they are essentially PCs running modified Windows.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 12 hours ago
The newer Xboxes already run Windows. MS could distribute their 360 emulator on regular Windows.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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.