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EpicRandy on 26 March 2024
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Mnementh said:
G2ThaUNiT said:

I actually like the way this sounds. Xbox turning into a Console/PC hybrid? I wonder if this could even include Steam and Xbox turns into a form of Steam Machine. There's a lot of possibilities as to how this can go, but it could be a way that Xbox as a piece of hardware survives. Especially with how much talk they've been doing about tearing down walled gardens. Xbox having direct access to the PC community could be massive. Especially in terms of the console turning into an affordable cost of entry into PC gaming.

The games would still have to be ported to Xbox, but still that would be huge. Because devs already registered with the PC stores and know their publishing process. And I also assume the stores would actually help with porting. Maybe even with an emulation layer like Steam has for Linux with Proton.

EGS would be already a good addition, if that could include Steam it would be massive though!

In the context MS is opening up the Xbox OS it is possible they do so in a way that drop the requirement to be packaged as an Xbox executable, if they do so there will be little requirement left preventing windows executable to run as-is on Xbox. But more likely than not, MS would still want to keep a minimal process just to make sure somebody is handling the situation and is responsible for the end quality.

As for emulation, MS already as a better solution running Linux software on windows (WSL2) than Linux as running windows executatble (Proton). WSL2 work because MS fully integrated a Linux core inside windows itself which allow Linux software to run on windows without an emulation overhead. I do believe the same strategy, and an easier to implement one a that, could be used here.