Xbox One games at E3 were running on Windows 7 with Nvidia GTX Cards
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[QUOTE][Update: PS4 developers state that their games were running on actual PS4 dev kits, not high-end PCs]
You know how EA's COO Peter Moore told Geoff Keighley during the post-conference interview at E3 that the games they were showing off on stage were running on comparable dev kit specs to the actual home consoles? Well...that's not really true. What is true, however, is that to get the best performance on home console games, Microsoft made sure that they were running on the most stable system specs available on the market and that happened to be an HP powered, Windows 7 system with Nvidia's 700 series GTX GPU.
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This is nothing new, the 360 was actually just a bunch of PowerMac G5s at E3 2005.
It'd be one thing if it was matching hardware but this is just ridiculous.
Xbox one emulation when
Here's hoping that that 2tb leak will have the E3 emulator on it.
i dunno if there were demos for ps4s but if there were I bet they were running on pcs as well
Confirms that devs won't be allowed to complain how hard it is to port to PC hardware.
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;41047231]Confirms that devs won't be allowed to complain how hard it is to port to PC hardware.[/QUOTE]
They did that for the Xbox 360, and the Xbox 360 also had a PC emulator during E3. Even better it was running on OS 9/10.
[QUOTE=don818;41047254]They did that for the Xbox 360, and the Xbox 360 also had a PC emulator during E3. Even better it was running on OS 9/10.[/QUOTE]
But it was running on PowerPc macs, which would have been a lot easier to run 360 games because the 360 used a PowerPc arch.
[QUOTE=rhx123;41047290]But it was running on PowerPc macs, which would have been a lot easier to run 360 games because the 360 used a PowerPc arch.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, IBM PowerPC is a vastly different beast, compared to the x86 architecture.
So this time around, there's no valid excuse for refusing to make a decent PC port, other than publisher greediness.
Wait, Microsoft was using Windows 7 over Windows 8? I think there is a whole side of the story a majority of us missed...
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;41047231]Confirms that devs won't be allowed to complain how hard it is to port to PC hardware.[/QUOTE]
The challenge is not to get it to run well on one type of machine, but all of them.
I wonder what the PC specs are.
[QUOTE=Fangz;41047333]Wait, Microsoft was using Windows 7 over Windows 8? I think there is a whole side of the story a majority of us missed...[/QUOTE]
Like what?
That even internally at Microsoft, Windows 8 is loathed?
That would be [B]BEYOND[/B] juicy :haw:
they even had PC builder cases, nice
[QUOTE=don818;41047197]Here's hoping that that 2tb leak will have the E3 emulator on it.[/QUOTE]
Is there any info that it was using emulator? Could be just windows builds of the game.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;41047400]Is there any info that it was using emulator? Could be just windows builds of the game.[/QUOTE]
There were SDK's bundled, so at least it'll prove to be a good hint at the differences between console builds, and pc builds.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;41047400]Is there any info that it was using emulator? Could be just windows builds of the game.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't matter; either way, the games are proven to be playable on PCs.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;41047417]I want pants like that, but those buttons look really uncomfortable if you sit down.[/QUOTE]
Not really.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;41047417]I want pants like that, but those buttons look really uncomfortable if you sit down.[/QUOTE]
They're only uncomfortable if you're practically leaning backwards while sitting.
[QUOTE=Van-man;41047371]Like what?
That even internally at Microsoft, Windows 8 is loathed?
That would be [B]BEYOND[/B] juicy :haw:[/QUOTE]
More likely it's that they made the XBone emulator back before Windows 8 was released and even though it might be probably compatible, they definitely want to keep the emulation development as contained and isolated as possible and left it run where it was originally developed to avoid hassle.
How is this not false advertising? I know it's a similar archtecture and all, but I'm pretty sure there are laws between giving you a toaster to make toast and a grill.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;41047421]What emulator? This all runs native, they are recompiled for PC because that machine has a closer-to-final specs than the devkit[/QUOTE]
Okay or that.
Why don't they make it a mini PC that plugs into the TV so the rest of us can play on our PCs? They make Windows sales, they make Xbone sales, they make a profit and there's no exclusive crap.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;41047496]Why don't they make it a mini PC that plugs into the TV so the rest of us can play on our PCs? They make Windows sales, they make Xbone sales, they make a profit and there's no exclusive crap.[/QUOTE]
Exclusives means [I]MOOONNAAYYY[/I] due to backhand deals between publishers.
Also more control over a closed environment such as consoles, which can be used in favor of squeezing out dosh from consumers.
Clearly since the demos were compiled for a PC with this spec, it must run on all PCs! It's not like the games thst actually support PC ports have driver or hardware comparability issues. Right? ....
Just because a development build of these demos run on this PC on a version of Windows 7 we know nothing about(what if core parts of the OS are modded to run these demos? ) doesn't mean it can well or at all on all the hardware sets pc gamers got.
Edit: BTW I'm not saying can't they port it. But they would have to make it work on tons of different hardware sets and support it. And they're pressured by MS to not port it since there's less money to be made.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;41047496]Why don't they make it a mini PC that plugs into the TV so the rest of us can play on our PCs? They make Windows sales, they make Xbone sales, they make a profit and there's no exclusive crap.[/QUOTE] Windows sales are junk and impossible to profit purely from that this time and age. Xbox live on the other hand. If nothing goes wrong, there will be zero piracy on xbone and no used game sales so in their theory it's a win. Developers can still port the games to pc but it's not in microsoft's interest.
So? Even if it does run on a PC whose specs are close to identical to the Xbox One, does it really matter that much?
This is just taking anything you can remotely hate it for.
it looks like they are using a evga gtx 680 or 780 or even a titan and a intel processor with a corsair h100 cooler?
Dev hardware is PC hardware? Who knew?
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