Two sources - teknylate.com and insideris.com - are reporting that the new Microsoft operating system Windows 8 will allow PC users to play Xbox 360 games on their computers. Apparently the only thing PC users will have to do is have Windows 8 and pop the Xbox 360 game into their DVD drive and that is it…. play time begins.
However, your PC will still need to be powerful enough to run the games. In addition, if you want to play these games online, PC players will have to buy access into an Xbox Live feature like Xbox 360 users have to. This could be very good news for all the PC gamers out there who have games they want to play but are not on the PC at this time. Games like Red Dead Redemption may now be available to play on the PC thanks to this option.
The question is why is Microsoft doing this because surely the option to play 360 games on the PC gives people a reason to not buy their own Xbox 360? The general thinking behind this is Microsoft are already working on their next console and that the Xbox 360 days may be numbered. My opinion is, Microsoft is doing this because their next console will not be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games and this is a way to appease fans.
What do you thinks, will you be using this option and will it stop you from buying an Xbox 360?
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I think it’s a good idea really, everyone who wants an xbox pretty much already has one so the ideal way to make more money is to sell more games,this potentially larger market is one that would include playstation specific gamers as well, they may not want to buy an xbox but they could buy an xbox game to play on the pc.
It also all depends on people adopting windows 8 in the first place for that reason, it’ll take alot more than playing xbox games and a touch screen interface to make me fork out for another OS upgrade so soon after Windows 7.
That would be the only reason I would consider a windows 8 purchase. Xbox is now the stronger brand than windows. Ten years ago I wouldn’t have considered a Mac os machine but now that apple finally has good graphics cards on their machines there is very little reason to get a windows machine.
I’ve had every version of windows since 3.1 and I can say I’ve never been thrilled by anything it’s ever done. But I have to say my experience with Mac os as well as Linux GUI is that Microsoft for whatever reason can’t design well. I think Microsoft is on a slow decline. Xbox is the only division with a future.