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[DanielG165]

If Microsoft pull this off, and do it properly, this could legitimately be one of the biggest moves in the industry in the past decade. Excited to see what happens in the next few hours!

 

[poppabk]

I have zero Xbox games and the ones I would be interested in (and have tried emulating, with middling success) I wouldn't be able to get - Forza Horizon 1 and 2.

 

[rodrigolfp]

English music is a sin. WTH are them thinking about changing the original music??

 

[Punished Miku]

English music is a sin. WTH are them thinking about changing the original music??

Original music sounds like a circus compared to the superior Falconer score.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Hope not

Ideally you should be able to play your old Xbox discs on PC

I would buy an xbox pc disk reader.

 

[winjer]

Being able to access my old Xbox games on my PC, would be cool.
But having to use the PC Xbox app, is a deal breaker. Broken piece of crap, that competes with GFWL.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Original music sounds like a circus compared to the superior Falconer score.

You must also be fan of DB Evolution.

 

[Punished Miku]

You must also be fan of DB Evolution.

Below the belt dude. Yellow card.

 

[bender]

You must also be fan of DB Evolution.

Below the belt dude. Yellow card.

 

[clarky]

Being able to access my old Xbox games on my PC, would be cool.
But having to use the PC Xbox app, is a deal breaker. Broken piece of crap, that competes with GFWL.

Whats broken about it? Used it loads last year when I had gamepass and didn't encounter any issues

 

[winjer]

Whats broken about it? Used it loads last year when I had gamepass and didn't encounter any issues

Had so many issues with it over the years, while using Gamepass.

 

[Bry0]

No reason most of these back combat games can't be emulated within windows afaik, just requires MS to spend the time and resources to get it done. It's already a vm within the xbox os.

 

[StereoVsn]

I have a feeling that this is for streaming efforts for your library and not full emulation.

However if they actually manage to allow you to play full on X360 and Xbox games on PC, that would be pretty sweet. The only question is if that would require GamePass, whether PC or Ultimate.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Whats broken about it? Used it loads last year when I had gamepass and didn't encounter any issues

I don't know if they have fixed it but there used to be a pretty well known storage bug where if you used the Xbox app to download a game and uninstalled it you wouldn't get the storage back 100% and the only way to fix it was to wipe the drive.

It's part of the reason why I put another m.2 in my PC and just use it for GP and other stuff.

I also still have issues with downloads just randomly stopping.

 

[clarky]

Had so many issues with it over the years, while using Gamepass.

In my experience at least, the app works as intended these days.

 

[StereoVsn]

Had so many issues with it over the years, while using Gamepass.

The issue wasn't the app per say, but rather the stupid Windows Store backend and also their annoying UWP format plus encryption.

They dumped UWP, but the store backend and how it handles large amount of data (and encryption) still sucks.

 

[Senua]

I have zero Xbox games and the ones I would be interested in (and have tried emulating, with middling success) I wouldn't be able to get - Forza Horizon 1 and 2.

Horizon 1 emulates beautifully now, lovely at 60fps

But yea this would be awesome

 

[peish]

How deep will this emulation go? Xbox OG to Series X?

 

[Bojji]

That would be amazing. I have Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon on my account but I can't access them...

 

[Dr.D00p]

Emulating a back catalogue to a fixed console spec is one thing but doing it to an open one like the PC where Potato specs reign supreme is a whole other level of pain to inflict on yourself.

 

[Alan Silvestro]

I think streaming, but if it is emulation, it's a great goal.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

We'll see. Could go down as the most extreme pro consumer move in the history of gaming.

How so?

 

[nial]

Original music sounds like a circus compared to the superior Falconer score.

I can't fucking believe there are people who watched DBZ without the original JP soundtrack. Just absolutely nuts.

 

[StereoVsn]

How deep will this emulation go? Xbox OG to Series X?

Is there a point to emulate Series games if they are all on PC already? I am thinking it would be OG Xbox through Xbox One.

 

[Tarnpanzer]

How deep will this emulation go? Xbox OG to Series X?

Best guess is only the first Xbox. Xbox 360 with higher res & framerate would be mindblowing.

 

[Boo Who?]

Nothing new showing up in my app on PC. Only what was there befoe playable on PC.

 

[StereoVsn]

Best guess is only the first Xbox. Xbox 360 with higher res & framerate would be mindblowing.

If they go emulation route, it has to be at least Xbox OG and X360, otherwise there isn't much point.

 

[Shockwave_Fox]

Serious and maybe stupid question - is it worth getting games for my Series X now and cheap on CDKeys if I plan to move to PC after this gen?
To get the games to play now and keep them when moving to PC from Play Anywhere and back compat?

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Ninja Gaiden Black was never ported. Nor Genma Onimusha.

Actually plenty of semi obscure Xbox only stuff out there. Would be cool to play Breakdown on my PC for example.

 

[GHG]

I hope it's actually emulation, for everyone's sake.

 

[Puscifer]

Please be real! There's some Xbox stuff I'd love to play again

 

[ReasonBeing]

I feel like they aren't ready for native Xbox play yet, and this is a case of them integrating their streaming options your library. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Topher]

Starting to think that this was all just a hoax

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Starting to think that this was all just a hoax

I would generally say if it's too good to be true it's not true BUT at the same time we got OG Xbox and Xbox 360 backwards compatibility on XBO/Series with automatic upgrades and even FPS boost so who knows.

 

[Baemono]

Original music sounds like a circus compared to the superior Falconer score.

Oh you're one of those

 

[Topher]

I would generally say if it's too good to be true it's not true BUT at the same time we got OG Xbox and Xbox 360 backwards compatibility on XBO/Series with automatic upgrades and even FPS boost so who knows.

I'll be curious about what Tom Warren has to say about it. So weird that this was leaked the day of the showcase and then.......nothing.