[RUMOR] Xbox 360 games could run on Windows 8 PCs [/RUMOR]

You see that big "Rumor" tag in the headline. Good; keep that in mind as you read this story, because this one could be too good to be true. A persistent batch of rumors from the tech world suggest that Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system will allow users to play Xbox 360 games on their computers.

Teknylate reports from an unrevealed source that if you have Windows 8 installed on your PC, you'll be able to pop Xbox 360 discs directly into your computer tower and load them up as though it were a console. Supposedly gamers will also be able to access their Xbox 360 dashboard and Xbox Live services on PC.

The rumor suggests that players will need to pay a fee to unlock this feature on Windows 8, although its unclear if this just means subscribing to Xbox Live Gold or paying on top of that subscription. It's important to remember that this is all rumor and speculation at this point, but various similar rumors have been circulating for several months now.

Microsoft has yet to announce an official release date for Windows 8, but the company is expected to continue unveiling features for the operating system in the next few months. Hopefully that means we'll know one way or another whether this rumor is legitimate soon.

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I think this isn't going to happen. For one, because MS will loose the sales of their console. Two, It would create an unbalance in online services. Etc.

^^ Well vamsi this might be true. I say this because the next gen consoles are just around the corner. Its a huge probability that MS will announce the successor of its xbox 360 console dubbed as the xbox 720 or something. Sony is planning to make a similar move as well.

Now if all these rumors are true, then i don't think running xbox 360 discs on windows 8 platform is false. Afterall it will be the best way to utilize the software content of a last gen console if the rumors are even near to be true. :smile:

A rumor is always be a rumor

Well, saw this in Guru3d forums as well, and folks over there are taking this pretty seriously, Gears of War anyone?

Well, if this happens, then we can be guranteed X720 or whatever it will be called launches before or at the same time as Windows 8.

comp@ddict said:
Well, if this happens, then we can be guranteed X720 or whatever it will be called launches before or at the same time as Windows 8.

PS4 goes into production this year, so rest assured, X360 v2 or whatever must launch alongside it next year if want to hold onto the lead.

IT would be great if it works!!

Finally I might manage to play Halo: Reach and Halo 4 :))

if this becomes true...then it would be awesome to play xbox titles on pc.......

thetechfreak said:
IT would be great if it works!!

Finally I might manage to play Halo: Reach and Halo 4

Gears of War 2 and 3 for me.

tkin said:
Gears of War 2 and 3 for me.

Hell Yeah & other titles such as
Uncharted,NG Sigma,Gran Turismo etc

tkin said:
PS4 goes into production this year, so rest assured, X360 v2 or whatever must launch alongside it next year if want to hold onto the lead.

And Windows 8 releases next year for PCs, wow, it's all falling into place!

Zangetsu said:
Hell Yeah & other titles such as
Uncharted,NG Sigma,Gran Turismo etc

Did you even read the title?

LOLOL, don't mess with the ~~Zohan~~, oops Zangetsu

comp@ddict said:
LOLOL, don't mess with the ~~Zohan~~, oops Zangetsu

Hmm, the fact he is irrelevant in bleach series atm, I say mess with him all you want

tkin said:
Did you even read the title?

oh my hairs are in front of my eyes.... :lol:

overall its a dream runing 360 titles on PC

tkin said:
I say mess with him all you want

I m the final form....so beware :sword:

Let's hope it will happen i am dying to play l.a noire,halo series games and gears of war series

Now i am holding my ps3 and xbox 360 console purchase till MS comment on this.

abhinavmail1 said:
Let's hope it will happen i am dying to play l.a noire,halo series games and gears of war series

Now i am holding my ps3 and xbox 360 console purchase till MS comment on this.

LA Noire coming to PC this year, one down.

Zangetsu said:
Hell Yeah & other titles such as
Uncharted,NG Sigma,Gran Turismo etc

Too bad XBOX 360 hasnt yet received a port of Gran Turismo 5 yet

So what's the end result? Console Game prices will decrease or PC Games increase? :noob:

One thing's for sure, game makers will start complaining about losing sales due to piracy.

The first games I will try is Forza Motorsport and Geometry Wars.

Zangetsu said:
oh my hairs are in front of my eyes....
overall its a dream runing 360 titles on PC

I m the final form....so beware

its hair and not hairs.... :lol:

Is Fight night 4 on xbox???Wish this game could come on pc....

tkin said:
LA Noire coming to PC this year, one down.

r u serious??? if its true...then that's gonna be one hell of a detective game to play....nice!!!!!

Great...Waiting to play RDR, LA Noire, Halo Series...

Well is there any news of Kinect for pc? :???:

@tkin... when is LA noire coming for pc?

abhidev said:
its hair and not hairs....

Is Fight night 4 on xbox???Wish this game could come on pc....

r u serious??? if its true...then that's gonna be one hell of a detective game to play....nice!!!!!

Announced by Rockstar almost a month back.

Posted it here earlier:-

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/gamerz/140900-l-noire-thread.html#post1433680

Imagine just get a WIN8 starter for 2.4K or HB for 5K & its ur XBOX360 i am dying to play GOW2&3 and HALOS also i think if it is true then XBOX360-2 will also be launched but neverthless it will be a sweet dream come true
Also waiting eagerly for LA NOIRE i think it will come in OCT-DEC has anyone played it in console

And will someone publish a hack to run xbox 720 discs also?

On a serious note, will the feature be ported to Win 7 also? Or we have to wait for another hack?

sammy_cool said:
So what's the end result? Console Game prices will decrease or PC Games increase?

console games become free (arr arr you pirates)

thats what will happen.

As if it's not already free.

Not possible.

Microsoft’s vice president of global marketing Mike Delman confirming:

"Live has been successful on the Windows Phone. Live will be built into the PC. It will be the service where you get your entertainment. We were talking about it — you will not just see consoles and handhelds at this show next year, this show’s going to morph into other devices."

Its live that is turned into a cross-platform feature. May be microsoft will port a few select games from 360 to PC but emulating the x360 on windows 8..nah!

Well, some negative report here:-

Why Microsoft Won't Emulate Xbox Games for Windows 8 - Tested

emulation of ps2 is still not fully completed.

And they r saying xbox 360 emulation. :-|

compare x360 and ps2 then think. :-|

let if they however manage to emulate then probably we will have to buy a super computer

Skud said:
Well, some negative report here:-

Why Microsoft Won't Emulate Xbox Games for Windows 8 - Tested

Yeah, we might see direct ports, but emulation wont be possible

Forget that 'put in the x360 disc and start playing' dream

Btw, I dont think we'll see halo reach either

. May be halo 3 and ODST in one pack(it was rumored a few years ago, remember?) are a possiblity, coz they're old enough and use a similar engine..but no way we'll see reach.

Kinect is coming to PC, this much is confirmed. They might bring Dance central to try and sell it.

awesome^^ Any news of release date... I am very eager to try it...

Emulation I don't think so. PS2 is still selling AFAIK so Microsoft won't want to just stop the sale of Xbox 360 even after 720 with this.

Kola2842 said:
emulation of ps2 is still not fully completed.

And they r saying xbox 360 emulation.
compare x360 and ps2 then think.
let if they however manage to emulate then probably we will have to buy a super computer

Not necessarily, the guys at microsoft have the source codes for the games, emulating it will be very easy if they do it.

Xbox live will be integrated in windows 8. Xbox 360 emulation may also be fully legitimate.

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Well Mike Delman just said that live will be integrated which is still available as free download I guess as many games requires that. Or its is different ???? I don't really know much about that.
He didn't said a thing about making XBOX game to be played on 8.

more wishware than ever vaporware at this point. There's no point in emulating the 360 natively in windows. absolutely no extra profit from a business standpoint, so why would MS even go there?

And windows doesn't require any magical oomph to sell brickloads of licenses. it's still comfortably leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the pack combined, despite what rabid apple fanboys will tell you.

Not gonna happen, uh ah.

After few years.. we are going to emulate those games anyways.

Hopefully on Windows 8.

Yeah hope !

wanna play god of war3 and tekken 6 on pc. :))

^^ God of war is a ps3 game!!!!!!!

He is talking about "emulating them on PC"

^^thanx to ans in my place

Emulation of PS3 is hard I guess because of that cell processor don't know for sure.

^^True but someday.....

Coz there was a time when ps2 emulation was dream but today we can.

Yeah when we have that much powerful hardware. And the same would happen when we would be way ahead of PS3 hardware. Till then enjoy PC games.

gameranand said:
Emulation of PS3 is hard I guess because of that cell processor don't know for sure.

No, its hard because PS3 does not use DX like x360 does, so thats one reason, plus we don't have the source code, if ms wants to import x360 games to pc they can because they have the source code and detail knowledge of the api. And all games made with cross platform engines like UE can be imported to pc with just a zap, like GOW.

tkin said:
No, its hard because PS3 does not use DX like x360 does, so thats one reason, plus we don't have the source code, if ms wants to import x360 games to pc they can because they have the source code and detail knowledge of the api. And all games made with cross platform engines like UE can be imported to pc with just a zap, like GOW.

Yeah right. Didn't thought about that.

But still its hard to imagine that MS will emulate XBOX 360 for windows.

gameranand said:
Yeah when we have that much powerful hardware. And the same would happen when we would be way ahead of PS3 hardware. Till then enjoy PC games.

We are ahead of ps3 hardware. Current nvidia and radeon gpu are miles ahead than the rsx. Intel sandybridge has much more computational power than cell.
Even last gen nehalem had much more power. And ps3 supports opengl-ES api. It can be ported but why would sony port its games on microsoft's os? Its not that it isn't possible.
In fact its easily achievable but won't happen cause of the above reason.

^I agree on that

vickybat said:
It can be ported but why would sony port its games on microsoft's os? Its not that it isn't possible.
In fact its easily achievable but won't happen cause of the above reason.

Well i was not talking about particular game's porting but about emulating ps3 env. for all games and that doesn't require SONI's permission. A third party can do that.

We are ahead of ps3 but those hardwere r yet coastly. For emulation we need more advance technology so that today's coastly things go cheap.

This "rumour" contradicts the very reason for consoles having exclusive titles

Game Developers already postpone PC releases , much after console counterparts.

The Reason its hard to emulate PS3 bcoz the PS3 disc rotates in both direction clockwise & anti-clock wise...
whereas a normal DVD rotates only clock-wise

mitraark said:
This "rumour" contradicts the very reason for consoles having exclusive titles Game Developers already postpone PC releases , much after console counterparts.

This is the saddest part for PC gamers

Halo 1 was released in PC. Why not Halo Reach and other XBOX Exclusives

?

thetechfreak said:
Halo 1 was released in PC. Why not Halo Reach and other XBOX Exclusives ?

Because these are trademark games for the consoles. For many people these games are reason why they buy Xbox 360. If they are released on PC then Xbox market will have a slowdown. :))

^^True same as god of war series.

Zangetsu said:
The Reason its hard to emulate PS3 bcoz the PS3 disc rotates in both direction clockwise & anti-clock wise...
whereas a normal DVD rotates only clock-wise

there is no need to rotate an ISO image :-D

Kola2842 said:
there is no need to rotate an ISO image

I know that...I heard it long before...not checked myself :grin:

Anyways for emulators i always use image file not dvd coz those make sometimes freezing framerate.