Knickers Twisted About Win 8 and Xbox 360

The story that won’t go away at the moment is that Windows 8 might, just might, have some kind of support for Xbox 360 games.

This is a post to say ‘don’t take that rumour seriously.


The main argument against this happening is that Xbox 360 games run on completely different processor architecture to consumer PCs (PowerPC as opposed to x86/x64). Emulation would potentially entail a significant (if not fatal) performance hit, and while recompiling Xbox 360 games for PC might not be quite as much work as it sounds given there’s a lot of DirectX commonality, it still sounds like an improbable amount of effort to me.

If it happens ill buy you all 'pc live' subscriptions.