pc's already playing xbone games

Mr Krugga said:
I think you're exaggerating the actual impact of the system the platform is running on. The performance difference is definitely there, but it's more to do with the way the games are coded and optimised for a single platform. On top of that, you have developers who stick to certain standards, unlike on PC, which is an open platform.

Besides, the performance difference isn't that dissimilar once you take into account the added benefits of a unified architecture and the actual settings the console games run at.
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I'd argue its a case of both working together. But as nobody has a true direct replica of the xbox hardware with which to put windows 8 and on test, its untestable exactly how much difference the Xbox OS makes compared to Windows 8 retail.
 
Fr0dders said:
It won't need half the code that the normal widnows 8 does to support the myriad of devices it does. Its only ever going to run on one graphics card, one sound card, one processor, one motherboard etc.. so everything related to supporting anything other than this spec can be binned, and we're talking fundamental changes to the core here, not just un-installing some device drivers.
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you don't really know what you are talking about
I can rip out all the drivers for windows infact people have been doing it for years with the "lite" versions of os.
it does not mean they run faster just the install size is much smaller.
what makes it run faster is turning off all the useless services which most people do anyway and the fact the devs are matching their visuals to a gpu's strong points.

I'm not even sure you can argue thats the case anymore with consoles running kinect , facebook , integration , all the social stuff running in the background these days makes it about as bad as a pc.
and they are all running 86x this time which makes them even closer to a pc.
I can see them being emulated uber quickly even if the copy protection doesn't get cracked.

someone will probably rip wh whole OS from the xbox and make it pc bootable
 
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