is it possible?
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I mean, technically we SHOULD be able to, because both new consoles use x86 processor architecture, just like regular PCs, but they use different components and instruction sets. (Previous consoles used custom ARM-based chips, I believe, and thus it was even less feasible to have their software run on regular PCs). Because of this, you can't just 'throw' the OS on there; and if you even got it running somehow, games are optimized specifically for all the components in an XBO/PS4, and absolutely not for your PC's components, even if they're high-end. It's not a matter of getting games to see your PC as a console, it's a matter of games not being programmed to run on typical PC hardware. You can't open up a PS4 and just find an R9 280 plugged into a PCI-e slot.explain.
However, both consoles and PCs using x86 architectures has benefits; because they are so similar, developers can much more easily port to PC from consoles (and vice versa), because they dont need to completely rewrite low-level code - they can, in a sense, pick up and move some parts of it with little recoding.
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