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RE: Windows 8 To Support Xbox 360 Games
wired 360 pads already work flawlessly with PC, wireless ones would need a dongle though, which is lame.

Kinect, lol I can't think of anything more ridiculous than Kinect on PC.

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(05/07/2011 05:00 PM)whjms Wrote:  If this is/was true, I'm guessing that it'll come with some kind of 'emulator'?
Stuff will probably be just recompiled for PC, similar to how Linux can work on many platforms.
Will depend on the underlying SDK how well this works though.
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RE: Windows 8 To Support Xbox 360 Games
Boyfriend's input on all of this:

Me: Oh, some site is reporting that Win 8 will have support to play 360 games. If that's true then that'd be pretty stupid on MS's part. 4:32 PM
Chris: Dunno, haven't heard that. Don't see why that's a bad thing though 4:33 PM
Me: Decrease in 360 system sales maybe? .-. 4:34 PM
Chris: But increase in new windows sales 4:35 PM
Chris: And a larger install base for 360 games, making it the most widespread platform 4:35 PM
Chris: Developers could just make a 360 game and not have to worry about porting 4:36 PM
Me: I guess...this would make pirated games so much easier to play though. 4:37 PM
Chris: Cause, I mean, that already happens, doing this discourages bothering to port to PC, which would mean in the future all PC games are more or less 360 ga 4:38 PM
Chris: mes. That means PC games can't ever possibly run on mac or Linux, and it kinda squeezes out things like steam 4:38 PM
Chris: But most games are already ported to PC anyway. If they did do this id assume it would come with a steam-esque anti pirate service that requires an inte 4:40 PM
Chris: rnet connection 4:40 PM

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(05/07/2011 05:01 PM)ProperBritish Wrote:  wired 360 pads already work flawlessly with PC, wireless ones would need a dongle though, which is lame.

Kinect, lol I can't think of anything more ridiculous than Kinect on PC.

Kinect on a Toaster?

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RE: Windows 8 To Support Xbox 360 Games
Wireless controllers work with the USB charger.

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Zinga Wrote:For people unaware, it really doesn't matter too much if they don't sell Xbox360s any more.  Typically consoles (at least in MS/Sony's case) are sold at a loss.  They make the money back from games and licensing.

They sell at a loss at the start because new top of the line hardware are expensive (eg. bluray drives when the PS3 just came out, new CPU/GPU), but now after many years they probably won't be selling at a loss anymore.
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^ But consequently, prices of consoles go down too.
It's probably not at a loss anymore, but I doubt they're gaining much from it.  Again, they earn the money primarily through game sales (why all console manufacturers are interested in keeping their consoles locked down, for example).
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I agree with Zinga, the loss wouldn't probably be as big as the win from doing this. And I wouldn't think too much of piracy, it's already dead easy on the 360 anyway and much more so if you're willing to sacrifice online play, almost everyone can connect a SATA cable to a mobo^^

And not that many 360 games are ported anyway, from the top of my head, PC would get:

FF XIII
L.A. Noire
DoA 4
Ace Combat
Lost Odyssey
Eternal Sonata
Forza
Infinite Undiscovery
Red Dead Redemption

etc.

Aaand when I think of it more, something similar was already done in the past with the Bleem! PSX emulator for PC.

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From the top of my head, the 360 only games (actually ported from coin-op arcades) I want to play is Death Smiles and the other Death Smiles game (IIX I think it was called)

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RE: Windows 8 To Support Xbox 360 Games
(05/07/2011 05:46 PM)roberth Wrote:  
(05/07/2011 05:01 PM)ProperBritish Wrote:  wired 360 pads already work flawlessly with PC, wireless ones would need a dongle though, which is lame.

Kinect, lol I can't think of anything more ridiculous than Kinect on PC.

Kinect on a Toaster?

touché good sir

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