windows 8 and xbox 360 compatibility.

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Rumours are(unless quashed recently) that the pc's running windows 8 and a decent enough spec are to be able to play xbox 360 games on it.
As a ps3 and Wii owner that'd be great for me..but i know 360 owners are fiercely loyal to their box of tricks and would probably prefer exclusivity.
Dunno if there's been a thread already on this but it seemed interesting!
 
I don't see the point in this at all. An xbox360 is basically a weak pc. So emulating software would be pointless. You could optmize it better for making it part of the software. Also most Xbox360 games are on the pc barring something like half a dozen titles. If you look at Alan Wake and the lame excause provided, they have no interest in sharing titles. And the ones they have (fable/Gears Of War) have tanked in sales. If you look at Microsofts horrifyingly bad vision of the future, barring Halo there is no mention of Xbox360 games. And most of the pc games they have put out are very lame free2play games rather than boxed products. So unless it was some sort of closed rent service using something like onlive, I can't see it happening. Nor would I want it really, it sounds like a closed off console experience that doesn't take advantage of the platforms strenghs.



.but i know 360 owners are fiercely loyal to their box of tricks and would probably prefer exclusivity.

Why? I can understand if you are a pc gamers, a keyboard has over 200 keys and the precision of the mouse is much better than that of analog stick for specific genres, generaly the games become less sophisticated and more mass market in nature when consoles become the main focus, so logically, it seems acceptible for people who prefer that control scheme or those types of games, not to be happy. However the other way around, it probably wont make any odds what so ever other than perhaps development time . So I can only assume this would be petty fanboysm, in which case, these people are a waste of time imo.
 

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