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An Xbox Series X can now run PlayStation 5 games, but there's a catch
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In a YouTube video that went live on September 8, developer Devran Cosmo Uenal booted the PlayStation 5 version of Quake II on an Xbox Series X and played it with an Xbox controller.
Key facts
- As a result, it needs a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card on PC, but Xbox Developer Mode only supports DirectX 11 and DirectX 12
- Both of them have eight Zen 2 CPU cores, RDNA 2 graphics and 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and PS5 games are compiled for the same x86-64 processor architecture that PCs use
- Android Authority reported on September 28 that KytyPS5 now goes in-game in a variety of PS5 titles on PC, and that one user had shown Marvel's Wolverine reaching its main menu, in slow motion
- In a YouTube video that went live on September 8, developer Devran Cosmo Uenal booted the PlayStation 5 version of Quake II on an Xbox Series X and played it with an Xbox controller
Summary
What is the PS5X Emulator for Xbox Series X and how does it work? The fact that he's managed to get PS5 games running on an Xbox at all is super cool, but there's a catch: PS5X only works in the console's official Developer Mode, where Microsoft's documentation caps games at 5GB of memory. Sony and Microsoft built their current consoles around closely matched AMD hardware. KytyPS5 translates the PS5's graphics commands and recompiles its shaders for Vulkan.