Windows 8 will run Xbox360 games.

I know i posted it also in the operating systems topic. But i thought it should also be on here.

Source: http://www.teknylate.com/2011/07/05/xbox360-games-on-p/

 

<3 this if i can play my games on Live against X360 players. Mouse and Keyboard FTW!!

 

that would just be unfair to the console junkies like myself. :wanker:

 

this cannot be true.

 

also, this sounds like a good idea

although, wonder what the released minimum specs will be

 

in b4 the flaming starts :wanker:

i realy am curious to see how this is going to work.

 

If its true, its going to be awesome, Lots of Xbox games have never been ported to PC and I would love to play them, I hope you can run them with AA and custom Resolution modes

 

forcing with driver maybe.

 

probably not. may have same limitations as the 360. technically the game was coded for a console. but its too early to tell what it will or wont be able to do.

 

Don't see how this will be possible, or much more than a built in emulator, and emulating hardware, even much slower hardware takes alot of power, so most will struggle to manage it.

Not forgetting the fact that Windows8 would have to be emulating a controller with mouse/kb, so for FPS's it would probably control pretty poorly compared to a PC game.

 

finally project gotham racing!! wohoo and forza

 

I'm expecting some "creative coders" to start writing cheats for Xbox360 games on Windows 8 ... and people would actually pay for that to beef up their stats for bragging rights.

 

What are the hardware specs of an xbox 360 compared to some of our PC's

What are the main differences that would prevent us harnessing our PCs to the game with say the xbox 360s firmware embedded and modded inside windows 8 code ?

I don't own a console so don't know what differences there are hardware wise - I would have thought a decent gaming PC would have much higher specs than a 360

 

an xbox 360 in pc terms is something like a dual core 2.5ghz and a ati 3850 or along those lines

 

****ing horrible idea and I hope to god not true, most companys wouldn't make a pc version of the game just an xbox version we would have to buy no dobt running on a emulator in crappy rez and no graphics options.

the ultimate console port :/


p.s non of these story's have any official links so im calling bs

 

Console boys are not glad?

 

I my self hope its true.
But sounds more like plain bull****.

 

So what would be the issues?

The majority of people have higher specs than that, I understand that the 360 does not run an OS so to speak, but with double those specs and a modded firmware coding built in, why would it not be possible ?

 

Because its not as simple as having similar or higher spec's.

Emulating PS2 games at 1920x1080 still taxes my system very heavily, and the first Xbox has never been properly emulated, which i have always found rather strange considering it was the first console to use PC like hardware.

Even ignoring the hardware issues, you will also run into compatibility problems, control issues, bugs that probably won't ever be fixed, and worst of all, as has already been mentioned, the possibility of no proper PC version of multi-platform games.

This would be great for Microsoft though, game sales without investing anything in hardware.