Microsoft escalates war against PlayStation, Nintendo emulation on Xbox Series X/S:
Although emulation is often associated with piracy, it’s also a legal way to play copies of games you already own on newer hardware with modern conveniences.
In the consoles’ earlier days, Xbox Series X/S owners could install various emulators and emulator frontends, like RetroArch, PPSPP, and DuckStation, using links on gamr13’s Github page to install Universal Windows Platform versions of these apps via the consoles’ Microsoft store. But as the tech giant began to take notice, it began to remove emulation apps from the store more and more quickly.
As long as you had already downloaded the emulators, however, you were fine. Until now. Some users on Twitter shared stories of losing access to collections of hundreds and hundreds of classic games they could no longer play on the Xbox Series X/S as a result of the change.Running emulators in the consoles’ developer mode remains an option, but access to that feature requires a $20 fee and isn’t always available to owners in regions where online payment systems are harder to access.
“[Emulation] was the entire reason that I, and many others, bought an Xbox,” gamr13 said. “PlayStation and Nintendo platforms do require some modifications to run this kind of stuff, but Xbox until now has been a really open and welcoming platform for anyone, be it indie devs [or] gaming preservationists. It was like the Steam Deck of consoles.”
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