Arkaign said:
First, there is absolutely no technical reason the X1 couldn't run a full version of Windows as an OS upgrade, to provide an alternate bootup option. Drivers would have to be written, and a few considerations taken with font scaling defaults/etc so that it looks good on a TV, but it is easily possible given the specs and architectures we're looking at. This is NOT enabling full windows on the current X1 OS, this is more akin to a dual-boot idea. Second, this is a hypothetical 'what would it mean' to be able to run all regular windows programs and games on the X1. |
No need to insult me... Then what is the point of it being a game console? Just buy a 400 dollar PC if you want something to use office and play a few indie games.
It is not easily possible at all is what you don't understand. The cost for Microsoft, not any of the vendors who helped to make the consoles would be much greater. Plus the fact that MS would actually have to start charging more for the console to cover these additional cost. It's still my opinion that it's a stupid idea, even in hypothetical. The cost of writing all the specialized code and rebuilding Windows to actually run on the console is huge (The Windows 8 core on the Xbox One now only exist on the kernal level). Just because the processor is x86 doesn't make it automatically capable of running Windows. I can have a x86 processor run Mac OS or one of many builds of Linux, doesn't mean I can run them on consoles (well Linux you can run on consoles, cause that's a swiss army knife of a OS type)
