It is somewhat embarassing to see how people are grasping at straws.
"MS looking into making an X360 emulator".
Do you remember the very early leak of a 20-page memorandum about X1 hardware? It had a hardware circuit for X360 backward compatibility. So, yes of course MS was and is looking into backward compatibility. We have the X1 now and it does not contain the circuitry. Can they make it in software?
As a rough estimate, it takes about four times cpu power to emulate another processor. The X360 has a 3GHz triple core power pc processor. So we need very roughly 30GHz of processing power to emulate it. Good luck with six 1.7GHz low power Jaguar cores. Sure we might add gpgpu power to an emulator. Maybe the whole, very complex thing would actually run some software at some 5-20fps. How many man-years of work would have to set aside for such an almost usable emulator? How many people would actually buy such an emulator? These are the problems MS is looking into when the question "How about an X360 emulator?" pops up. What should the guy on stage answer if he wants to avoid the simple, but truthful "Not in a million years" reply?
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