[solved]XBOX 360: WHY wasn't it x86?[NEW QUESTION]How hard would it be for MS to emulate/go BC with original Xbox games?

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Pemalite said:

Funny joke, x86 has always had an edge over PowerPC in many tasks.

Remember the PowerPC CPU's the Xbox 360 and PS3 uses are low IPC, In-order architectures and are thus low cost solutions, perfect for a cost sensitive device.
They provided adequate performance relative to Intel and AMD at the time, but they never out-performanced processors like the Core 2 Quad Q9700 which despite being 7-8 years old... Can still run every console port just fine today with better image quality and a "bloated OS" with other applications all at once.

That's not actually true. One example is G4 which slaughtered any x86 CPU in all benchmarks at the time. Also C2Q never came out until late 2008.