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[CrimsonTide]

These shitbags talking about game preservation whilst holding onto this and not re releasing it..

I am still patiently awaiting the Dreamcast port that GamePro magazine promised was coming. It's been a quarter century, but I am a paitent man.

 

[Fess]

Xbox emulators in the Xbox App on PC?

Or backwards compatibility for a future console or handheld?

 

[ExtendEmbraceExtinguish]

How do you propose bringing 3 generations of disc games to PC when not a single PC in the past 10 years has shipped with a disc drive?

What market is there for that at all? Or is it only about forcing people to rebuy old digital games of what they already own on disc that PC ports most likely exist for.

If it's Microsoft developed title 99% of them have PC ports already. What Xbox games are they looking to bring to PC and how

This is to tell xbots their new home is a pc. That's all. If they are satisfied the gamepass train keeps on pushing. One market means a larger gamepass presence.

 

[CrimsonTide]

This is to tell xbots their new home is a pc. That's all. If they are satisfied the gamepass train keeps on pushing. One market means a larger gamepass presence.

GamePass is the future of gaming, and the future is now. In the future, gamepass will be king and you can get in the future, now with gamepass, for the future right now.

 

[viveks86]

I thought they were going to use their groundbreaking Muse AI to do this...

 

[Fafalada]

Microsoft could have a successful launcher

It would help to not make UX (and most functionality) complete crap. And after 15 years of failing at it, I don't have high hopes they are ever going to get this better, let alone right.

Admittedly the bar for even 2nd place launcher on PC is ridiculously low, but even that seems out of MS reach so far.

Anyway on topic, legacy xbox compatibility is just about the only reason to own the box now, although it would be nice if they had more than a handful og xbox titles licensed.

 

[Loomy]

A lot of arguing over a trivial job posting. This is likely to replace an existing, departing, or soon to be departed principal in that role. That means their plans, roadmap, etc are still the same. No drastic change based on hiring a someone to lead a few teams.

Having said that, Microsoft is likely well underway on work to make it easier to emulate older and some current games across a bunch of different hardware configurations.

 

[dgrdsv]

Xbox emulators in the Xbox App on PC?

Or backwards compatibility for a future console or handheld?

The latter. Although the difference can be rather small these days.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

So for context, Xbox has an entire team for this. They've prioritized it for two console cycles now. If anything, they're moving more in the direction of back compat and prioritizing preservation. So adding someone new to that team is no surprise. It's for sure a positive thing for Xbox players.

But this could also be just replacing someone who left. So kinda silly to argue about it on a post, to be clear.