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Depends on if the 720 can play 360 and/or used games. If they lock it down as rumored, then no, I won't get one. Personally, I'm more excited about the Steam c
by revscat 14y ago
Depends on if the 720 can play 360 and/or used games. If they lock it down as rumored, then no, I won't get one.
Personally, I'm more excited about the Steam console.
- MartinCron 14y agoYou realize the irony of buying a Steam console because you can't get used games for the new Xbox?
- DigitalJack 14y agoI think you read too much into their post. I read it as: If MS locks it down, it would be on even footing with the Steam console, in which case his preference is for Steam.
- MartinCron 14y agoYes, that's a perfectly valid but far less entertaining interpretation of the comment I replied to.
- revscat 14y agoI said I was more excited about the Steam console, not that I would buy one instead should MS lock down the 720. I'm excited because Valve has traditionally made some truly excellent games. If they can translate that excellence into the hardware arena then we could see something interesting and new. The 720 is a generational upgrade, but is not, strictly speaking, new. The Valve console, on the other hand, is from someone whom I have developed a good deal of respect for over the years. I'm curious to see what they come up with.
- polshaw 14y agoThe fate of the steam box is rather dependent on how much support there is for developing/porting to linux.
- chc 14y agoIt's really hard to imagine it will be able to play 360 games — not because of some evil scheme by Microsoft, but just because it's impractical. In order to backwards-compatible like that, you need one of two things: A) Hardware that is extremely similar to the old system, so that you can either run its software natively on the metal or virtualize it without much of a penalty -- This is how the Wii ran GameCube games -- In a strange way, this is also how the original PS3 ran PS2 games — it included special hardware just for PS2 compatibility B) Hardware that is radically more powerful than the old system, so that even though you have to emulate the old hardware, you're doing it fast enough to run the software at full speed -- This is how the PS2 and PS3 play PS1 games -- This is also how modern PCs do emulation of old consoles Neither of these is the case for the 720 as far as I know. The hardware is very different from the 360, and although modern hardware is significantly more powerful than the 360, there still aren't any emulators for it or the PS3.
- Impossible 14y agoPS2 wasn't powerful enough to emulate a Playstation. The PS2 had a PS1 CPU that could run PS1 games, but normally served as an I/O processor.