I watch dvd's on my SX. It can also idenitify Xbox and 360 titles.
I'm guessing its because the open source license usually forbids using the code for commercial purposes.
I could see MS pursuing this, but the idea that they would need to work with Xenia is silly. The work is already done.
Series X consoles plays DVD movies, and plays audio CDs without issues. PS5 only plays DVDs, it doesn't support CDs at all.
Definitely
The PS4/XB1/Switch era was more deeply entrenched into the digital gaming landscape coming off PS3 and Wii U though. There's a general understanding now that people expect their libraries to carry forward. PS5 and Switch 2 would have had massive push-back if they weren't BC. Hell, one of the main talking points for Switch 2 leading up to its launch was whether it had BC. I mean if these companies want to push us into a digital future, it's incumbent on them to provide solutions for library preservation. Who wants to dump thousands upon thousands into ecosystems which may be stuck on legacy hardware? That's why people feel much more comfortable buying digital on Steam, any capable PC device can access your library. Which yes as you say, competing in the PC ecosystem space with Steam is gonna be an uphill battle.
For all the 7 PC gamers who actually own a DVD reader?
We're like a decade into consoles being digital-centric and the data says digital has eclipsed physical. As more and more people buy digital , they're not going to just hand-wave their purchases being locked to older platforms as the years pass. Even if we're in the minority now I doubt that remains static the further along we go. The main reason I think Sony hasn't pushed their older legacy titles further is because XBox hasn't been competition since the 360 ( and in that gen, PS3 has both PS1 and PS2 BC depending on which model). If Microsoft was pushing Playstation further, I feel like Sony would at least have given a better effort on the BC front. As of now there's no competitive reason to because they are the default platform in the ( higher end) console space. To what degree it would 'matter' as far as which gamers genuinely care about it isn't really the point, but if they were actually being pushed in the console space they're not going to let someone have a bullet point feature over them, even if in the grand scheme only the minority care about it.
I wasn't really contesting otherwise. We'll have to see how it works out. I don't think they have many plays left in the book, so we're not really in disagreement on that.
What has a third party/hombre emulator community has to do with whatever MS does on its own platform?
Because a good game is a good game.
Isn't the backwards compatibility program basically digital only ports of old games that can be dowloaded if you put your original disc ? Which is insane as Microsoft did for free what publishers charge players for usually.
remember playstation classic? it do use an open source emulator solution
Holy shit! Is Xemu that good? It's the only one I've never looked intoit's not? I have a modded Xbox where I can simply send my disc games over to my PC.
and there are DVD drives you can firmware flash to read Xbox discs.
but even so... do you think anyone cares that it's piracy?
there are 63 og Xbox games backwards compatible currently...
now let's take a look at the compatibility graph of XEMU:
85% of all og Xbox games are playable. that's more than 800 games... vs 63.
if Piracy wins, it's Microsoft's fault
Microsoft could sell a disc drive with firmware that lets it read og Xbox and 360 discs, and make their system fully backwards compatible. if they don't do it, Xemu and Xenia will make their efforts meaningless
