It's very limited for now, though
- by Ben Kerry 4m ago
YouTuber Modern Vintage Gamer has just uploaded a brand-new video discussing Xbox One emulation on PC, and how the scene is starting to grow over there. For the longest time, emulating Microsoft's last-gen machine hasn't been easy, but new 'translation layer' techniques mean that certain projects seem to be moving forward in the Xbox One to PC emulation scene.
Again, it's very early doors right now, but MVG talks about getting Xbox's Forza Horizon 2 running on Windows via this technique. This is a game that only launched on Xbox consoles, with Horizon 3 marking the first full Forza release to launch day and date on PC. For now, the modders have only got to the menu screen with FH2, but there is another example of a game actually running in this video.
That'd be Minecraft, which MVG shares some footage of up above. Sure, this is just a proof-of-concept because the Mojang title is already on PC of course, but it's evidence of a native Xbox One title running on PC via this emulation technique. The YouTuber hopes to see progress with games like Forza Horizon 2 soon, especially because there's no native PC version out there.
It goes without saying that playing this way isn't official in any way shape or form, and we can't endorse this sort of thing, in that case. Even so, it's always cool to see emulation change and evolve over time, and we're curious to see how Xbox One emulation stacks up to Xbox 360 equivalents in the coming years.