PS4, Xbox One or neither!

Discussion in 'Upcoming Game Chatter' started by abdulrapidz, Oct 30, 2013.

  1. TwilightAngel
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    "Xbox is marketing itself as more of an all-in-one entertainment device, meaning a lot of more casual gamers and non-gamers with families will purchase the device."
    http://www.policymic.com/articles/73673/ps4-vs-xbox-1-which-should-you-buy-this-holiday-season

    This is kinda what iv been reading on some sites
     
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    There is still no valid emulator for the first xbox. Food for thought.
     
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    Usually you need about 10-20 times the power to emulate a game system it's only been in the last couple years the average comp could run a Nintendo DS emulator or a PS2 emulator without slow downs and crashes.
     
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    but the games were written with special coding for the systems and its resources. now a xbone and a ps4 is just a cheap mass produced pc with its own modified windows rt style os. so it should be much easier and i love my DS wii and dreamcast emu. still havent found a 3d0 emu tho, i loved the game quarantine
     
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    The original XBox used a Pentium 3 processors and a modified Windows NT kernel running an embedded Windows OS. It still took ages for any emulator to even be able to do basic things, and from what I can tell there still isn't one that can fully play games without any problems. Granted, some of the tech in the new XBox One will make getting an emulator working a bit easier than the OG XBox, but it will still take a lot of work.
     
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    It isn't really about power (thought it does help). The issues are usually command calls, timing issues, and the requirement to write drivers by hand. Think about how easy it is for bug to enter PC gaming code with tried and tested drivers plus documented APIs. Imagine writing drivers and code for an emulator with no api, for unknown hardware, and having to virtually having to replace hardware features. It takes a lot of dedication.