> What I am saying is that development of a Xbox One emulator would be pointless at > this stage. Let Microsoft do all the work in their next retail platform and go from > there.
You're making a lot of assumptions here.
1. Microsoft will have another platform, they might stick with this and just ramp the speed/number of cores.
2. That a future platform will be backwards compatible at all.
3. That they won't just shrink the current chipset down for backwards compatibility.
4. That if they do a software emulator, that the next platform will be similar enough to a PC that you could make any use of it.
5. That if they do a software emulator that you'll be able to extract it.