UPDATE! vgleaks: Microsoft Xbox Roadmap (2013) - possible bc, online not required, used games allowed

[KHlover]

walsufnir said:

KHlover said:

walsufnir said:

KHlover said:
I wonder how much money they would actually save by excluding it from Durango. It's not like the Xbox360 used any super customized parts like the CELL processor of the PS3 (at least none that I am aware of), so I think it certainly would be possible to have the BC with the rumored specs, so no additional cost for BC.

Seems like they just want to squeeze as much money out as possible (understandable from their point of view), but I wonder how many people would buy a Durango and a BC box...

You mean emulation?

Yeah, pretty much software emulation. Wasn't the factor 10 always thrown around for software emulation? I'm pretty sure the Durango will end up 10x stronger than the Xbox360 and with the emulation handeled by a professional team with all the needed info I'm pretty sure the Durango could have a near-perfect software-based BC if Microsoft wanted it. But obviously making gamers who want it pay twice will turn out more profitable for Microsoft^^

No emulation requires especially cpu-power and rumor has it that they use jaguar like Sony. The cpu is not very fast in this. NextBox and Sony have way more power but also especially because of gpu and I don't know how much you can offload emulation-tasks to gpgpu. And even if you could they also have to use the gpu to make 3d-stuff run on NextBox. I don't say it's totally impossible but seems very hard to do. Just look at Dolphin, the gamecube and Wii emulator, what the requirements are and now think of how much more power 360 has.

 To bolded: Sony wants you to pay for bc, too. They do with PS3 and will with PS4 (with what we have still to be seen performance with Gaikai).

True, but since this comment of mine was about the Durango leak I didn't mention the PS4. Trust me, I did not intend to imply any superiority of the PS4 over Durango^^

About the other part of your comment: Yeah, this sounds pretty logical. Emulation is indeed very CPU-weighted, which is a problem. But the results of an emulator programmed by a specialized dev team with access to all the needed information and tools which only needs to develop for a single set of specs would be truly interesting to see :D