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Conina on 21 March 2020
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Pemalite said:

alexxonne said:

360 emulation in PC is poor because there are no good programmers interested in it, no even for OG xbox. True, some people have been working for years on the libraries and instruction set for those systems, but not much more luck than that. PS3 emulator is great simply because it has a very good programmer devoted to achieve true ps3 emulation in PC, simple as that. PS3 is a very complex system and its CPU is not an ordinary one, technically speaking is still more advanced than ps4 or xbox one cpus; notice i didn't say not faster but advanced.

Xbox 360 emulation is poor, not because people aren't interested in it... But because of a myriad of reasons.

You are quick to throw out the "facts" word but not willing to pony up evidence.

Even if there are a myriad of reasons, one of the biggest reason is probably that there are only a few good original Xbox and good Xbox 360 games titles left that you can't already play as PC version.

If you go through the Xbox games (~200) or X360 games (~400) with a MetaScore of 80+, there are only very few which aren't available on PC (in most cases in a much prettier version) or totally outdated sport games.

Emulation of Sony or Nintendo consoles is much more attractive because there are much more games without a PC version.

Another big reason is the examplary treatment of old Xbox and 360 classics on Xbox One and Xbox One X.

Why invest much work into emulating the few original Xbox and 360 games that aren't available (or broken) on PC, if Xbox fans just have to buy a used Xbox One X (you will get it for less than $200 beginning this year, probably less than $150 next year) to play them in awesome quality.

  • Panzer Dragoon Orta in 4K
  • Fable Anniversary and Fable 2 in 4K
  • Forza Horizon 1 in 4K
  • Ninja Gaiden Black 1 + 2 in much higher resolution 
  • Splinter Cell 1 - 3 in much higher resolution (some PC versions have broken shadows)
  • Conker Live & Reloaded in much higher resolution 
  • BLACK in much higher resolution 
  • SSX 3 in much higher resolution 
  • Red Dead Redeption 1 in 4K

These great enhancements on Xbox One X are also the reason why an original Xbox mini console would probably fail: why play them on a $80 - $100 mini console in 480p, when you can play them on an used Xbox One S ($80 - $120) in 720p - 1080p or on an used Xbox One X ($150 - $200) in 1080p - 4K?

Last edited by Conina - on 21 March 2020