| Mr Puggsly said: Not quite, to make the Gamecube, Wii and PS2 emulators to work well you need a pretty good or modern CPU. Essentially the same CPU power to make modern games run well. Not what I consider a toaster. To boost the resolution and other settings it requires even more power. |
But it wouldn't be emulating the Gamecube or Wii with it's PowerPC instruction set, It wouldn't be emulating the Playstation 2 with it's MIPS instruction set either... Making your argument rather superfluous.
There is significantly less overhead as the instructions being translated from the Original machine to the newer machine is 1:1 as both are x86. - In-fact there should be minimal need for emulation itself anyway, maybe a higher reliance on repackaging/abstraction/virtualization and other techniques though. - Which is how Microsoft achieves what it does with Xbox 360 emulation on the poor Jaguar CPU's.
With that said... Emulating Gamecube, Wii or the Playstation 2 isn't very CPU demanding anymore, even AMD's cheapest dual-core CPU's can handle it fine these days.
| Mr Puggsly said: Also, if they use different hardware that means they have to port the existing emulator or create a new one. |
No. It doesn't mean that at all.
They are using the same hardware architecture, they can still use the same software.
Remember... The Xbox One actually runs multiple Operating Systems, cut a few of those out... And only keep what is required for Emulation and you can decrease CPU and DRAM usage.
But they don't even have to do that. 2GB of Ram free is more than enough memory to emulate Original Xbox games.
| Mr Puggsly said: With all that taken into consideration, it makes sense to use existing hardware (Xbox One S) which plays OG Xbox games very well already with improved visuals. |
Waste of money though.
I get what you are saying... But the Xbox One S already does everything you describe... And people aren't flocking to it like they did with the NES or SNES Classic and buying it in droves for that sole reason as far as I know.
Cost is a massive factor, regardless of extra value incentive extras.
| Mr Puggsly said: Its more work to create new hardware that plays OG Xbox games just as well, create an online storel also a new device wouldn't have all the features X1 has. |
It's not "new" hardware per-say. - They can harvest dud chips.
| Mr Puggsly said: The X1 is already doing what people want, so why move away from that to make an inferior device? |
Price. - Doesn't mean the Xbox One goes away either.
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