@pinkfloyd6789: Another GameSpot employee paid to post. Awesome

Gamespot:

Either give up making tech related articles or outsource it to someone who knows what they are doing.........or just repost articles from other sites like you usually do.

At least readers would actually get some useful information.

This article was a waste of time and resources.

Can we at least get a remaster patch on PC so we can finally have proper 60fps?

As long as they use a new engine and hire some game of thrones writers I'm good with it. Fallout 4 was severely held back by that crappy engine, not to mention the story (including side quests) wasn't as good

Buzzkill....

Was hoping for a game announcement, those are always exciting.

Gamespot, you arent even TRYING to hide the fanboy bait anymore.

If you were going to name every game released this year.........why even title it this way?

@Gaming-Planet: WE didnt need it but THEY did.

Gamespot thrives off of the fanboy back and forth so they stoke it at every turn.

Just look at their articles and reviews, and how they have stripped away rules from the System Wars forum. Jeff Gertsmann wasnt the first and wont be the last. This place has been corrupted.

@mariokart64fan: You are essentially talking digital vs disc.

Gamecube discs could play in Wii so there was no need for licences (Wii was essentially 2 gamecubes anyway)

PS3/PS2 could also read discs.

Once you go digital........they have to be re-licensed.

As technology gets more advanced, it becomes A LOT harder to emulate from the disc. PS3 got around this by having the actual hardware on the motherboard.

This is why 99% of PC emulation is done with ISOs. You cant feasibly run old games from the disc and also decode instructions for the emulator without introducing more problems. Console games operate on a extremely tight instruction window. This is why PC needs to be a lot beefier to run old games on disc.

Its hard to explain on a forum but its not as simple as downloading an emulator and running from disc. These drives (and more importantly CPUs) are far too slow and weak to do on the fly from the disc

@uncle5555: What Gamespot failed to mention (on purpose....you know.......for clickbait) is that Phil Spencer also said that they cant get the license for a lot of the OG Xbox games because a lot of those studios have closed, were bought, or just dont exist anymore.

Also, these console disc drives dont spin fast enough to have games run from the disc. You need to not only read the emulator instructions but also game data. Its very complicated even if you own the software.

Being digital is the only logical way but that, then, requires licences from the publishers since its being downloaded to another platform.

PC emulation works the same way. Very rarely do you have a game running from the disc. Its just not feasible.