Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
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Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#2It's not surprising, but still disappointing. Emulators preserve games of eras past.
Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#3It's not surprising, but still disappointing. Emulators preserve games of eras past.
But they don't monetize them ;)
Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#4It's not surprising, but still disappointing. Emulators preserve games of eras past.
If you allow emulator on your console that will eat into your game sales. I think this happened to the psp when it got jail broken .
Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#5It's not surprising, but still disappointing. Emulators preserve games of eras past.
So do "Virtual Consoles" which are releasing more and more past games on different platforms and charging for it. I'm guessing if emulators weren't so rampant on the PC then companies like Nintendo would have or would think about creating a Virtual Console on PC for NES/SNES/N64, etc.
Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#6It's not surprising, but still disappointing. Emulators preserve games of eras past.
If you allow emulator on your console that will eat into your game sales. I think this happened to the psp when it got jail broken .
If the psp game sales were so low, it was mostly because of the very limited size of the library.
Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#7I guess in 10-20 years we will be telling our grandchildren about the old days, where you can do whatever you want on your computer, limited only the abilities of the hardware* . And they won't believe us.
*Simplification, of course.
Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#8It's not surprising, but still disappointing. Emulators preserve games of eras past.
So do "Virtual Consoles" which are releasing more and more past games on different platforms and charging for it. I'm guessing if emulators weren't so rampant on the PC then companies like Nintendo would have or would think about creating a Virtual Console on PC for NES/SNES/N64, etc.
Commerically released emulations of older games almost always just package up whatever open source emulator, usually some old, broken version, with limited rom selection.
No thanks, ill stick to the latest versions I can actually get games im interested in for.
Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#9I guess in 10-20 years we will be telling our grandchildren about the old days, where you can do whatever you want on your computer, limited only the abilities of the hardware* . And they won't believe us. *Simplification, of course.
No one has to put up with this though. Use free software and gain control over your computer again.
Re: Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
#10I don't know about XBox, but does anybody actually use anything from the Windows Store? The only app that I have gotten is the SlingTV app, except I ditched it for the older native app, because the UWP Store one was so hideously broken and slow.