Hypothetically, since the current gen consoles are so close to "off the shelf" PCs, could you make slight modifications to the Xbox One or PS4 operating system to install it on a virtual machine? Could you actually get it to play games correctly like that?
>>54470617
>since the current gen consoles are so close to "off the shelf" PCs
they are not.
emulators for LAST-GEN consoles (PS3, 360) barely exist and won't run commercial games, these things are like 10 years old
CURRENT-GEN consoles are even more divergent and may not be emulated ever during their market lifetime
>>54470673
But last gen consoles used weird, custom CPUs and stuff. This generation, it's just slightly modified AMD chips from what I understand. Shouldn't that make emulation easier, DRM measures aside?
>>54470617
Not that simple anon.
Especially with the xbone, there are several heartaches that prevent any form of modifications.
Server-side shit, encryption-shit, binary-shit, the whole cabob.
The xbox one doesnt even have it's OS on the harddrive, its hosted on a separate onboard chip.
Maybe eventually we'll have an emulator but no time soon, is my guess.
>>54470701
>But last gen consoles used weird, custom CPUs and stuff.
current-gen consoles use weird, custom memory architectures and weird, custom drivers/BIOS which are as different from PC equivalents as the hardware was last gen
for example, shared pool memory instead of RAM+VRAM, encrypted bus standards, etc
>>54471452
Thanks for explaining that.
