Microsoft says Nintendo had nothing to do with Xbox emulator crackdown

[John Elden Ring]

After Microsoft began taking action against emulators being run on Xbox consoles, a statement shared on Twitter attributed to a member of the Xbox QA team suggested that the action was being taken due to "legal issues with Nintendo." Now, an official Microsoft statement suggests that's not the case.

"The information currently circulating on Twitter is not accurate," Microsoft tells IGN. "Our actions are based on a long standing policy on content distributed to the Store to ensure alignment with our Microsoft Store Polices [sic]. Per 10.13.10, Products that emulate a game system or game platform are not allowed on any device family."

Microsoft says Nintendo had nothing to do with Xbox emulator crackdown

Emulators on Xbox Series X/S are being restricted by Microsoft

www.gamesradar.com

 

[KiryuRealty]

A working build of Xenia, the Xbox 360 emulator, was released as a retail mode app the day before the crackdown hit.

Anyone still think Nintendo had anything to do with this?

MS doesn’t want an emulator that plays games they still sell through their online store available easily on their store. Not to mention it exposes that their “backwards compatibility” is bullshit, as Xenia plays pretty much anything where MS’ half-ass solution leaves most of the library unable to be played.

 

[anonpuffs]

Microsoft obviously turned a blind eye to emulators that would let people play other platform games on xbox. I don't believe a word they say.

 

[Entropi]

So it had everything to do with Nintendo then?

 

[KiryuRealty]

So it had everything to do with Nintendo then?

Read my post above.

Xbox and Xbox 360 games could be emulated on Series now, and the day after the emulator was released, the crackdown came.

Nintendo had fuck all to do with it.