Introducing XWine1, an Xbox One translation layer for Windows PCs. Currently six games are fully playable, with others reaching logos and in-game. More news to come.

Would translation layers for Xbox/PS4 on win PC work on Linux via wine?

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So is it an emulator? Or does "translation layer" mean something else?
- For those who don't care, it's an emulator.
  
  For those that do care, it's not trying to emulate the actual hardware of the xbox one it's just translating system calls to work on normal Windows PCs. WINE, the inspiration for the name, stands for WINE IS NOT AN EMULATOR so they probably didn't want to call it one. But you could call it high level emulation if you want.
  
  Thanks for the explanation.
  
  So it's HLE?
- Wine Is Not an Emulator
That's a cool project! I'd love to see more translation layers making vendor lock-in less of an issue
Oh nice. Wonder if we will ever get to game pass on Linux.
Are there even any Xbone games that aren't available on PC?
- Its a short list
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3AXbox_One-only_games
  
  Is there an "Xbox One only games not present on any other platforms" list because Halo 5 is playable on a Series console.
- There are xbox360 games that aren't on PC, and if this also handles the XBone's backwards compatibility, then yes there are Xbox games that aren't available on PC currently
  
  Namely I've been waiting to play Lost Odyssey on PC for over a decade
- At the very least, there's Rare Replay and Halo 5. Plus this was like the very end of the era where some third parties didn't make PC ports, so I'm sure there are some stragglers there.
i feel Like you would pronounce it Like the german word Schwein. shwine chwine xwine.

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