Microsoft engineer confirms that the Xbox One will be able to drive the PlayStation 4 just fine

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So the question my son had about the Xbox One, and I thought it was pretty goofy at the time, was whether you?d be able to hook up the PlayStation 4 to the Xbox One to play Killzone while taking advantage of the other features that come with the Xbox One. The word on the street was that it was technically possible due to the HDMI input of the Xbox One, but it would introduce significant lag. I asked Microsoft?s Jeff Henshaw if this was possible, and his answer surprised me.

?It is an extremely small lag that the human eye will not be able to perceive,? Henshaw said. So yes, it?s going to be very possible to play the PlayStation 4 using the Xbox One, and the lag, according to Microsoft?s engineer, will be very hard to detect. You could also hook up a Wii U and play the new Mario game, and then use voice commands to put that in the background and switch over to an Xbox One game without changing inputs.

It?s fun to make someone from Microsoft squirm a bit by asking these questions. So I can play games using a competitor?s console while using all these neat Xbox One features? ?Um, you could,? Henshaw said, and he pauses the game to think about the answer. ?If it puts out HDMI, it?ll work just great.?

In fact, he said, this is the way he and his son play Xbox 360 games at home; they have the system hooked up via the Xbox One so they can have fun with the new UI and still play Xbox 360 games. So he?s not speaking hypothetically, this is a working feature.

So your PlayStation 4 will work just fine through the Xbox One. You can keep your Wii U hooked up through your shiny new Microsoft console to play those first-party games and then take a call via Skype. If you put in an Xbox 360 you?ll be able to see a little Xbox 360 dashboard inside the Xbox One dashboard. Henshaw is mostly comfortable talking about using the Xbox One to drive the Xbox 360, but he admits that anyone else?s console will work.

?You can extrapolate whatever you want! ? he said with a laugh ?Whatever you want to hear!?

This is pretty cool, and when both systems arrive it?s going to be an interesting experiment to use the PlayStation 4 UI from within the Xbox One?s UI. What a strange world in which we live.

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Sorry, so theoretically, you could play killzone or gran turismo on the new xbox?

Theoretically.. you could play killzone ON your TV.. and it doesn't even have a disk drive :o

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If your PS4 connected to a blueray player (or any central amp or sound only system) instead of direct to your TV, is another device making the game or just passing the video signal along?

 

So yes, you could pasthrough any HDMI feed that is unprotected (obviously) unless you own it.

Sorry, so theoretically, you could play killzone or gran turismo on the new xbox?

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Xbone: Slide yourself right in me, PS4.

 

PS4: Yes, I will slide inside you because you are my bitch!

 

Xbone: RROD

 

 

why this, nasty image in my mind! dam you!

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Or you could plug your NES into your Xbox One and play super Mario bros along with Forza 5 :laugh:

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If you plug a PS4 into an Xbox One, the PS4 will inject a virus that will make it self detonate. :laugh:

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Good luck finding a hdmi adapter for that :p

You could, using the Wii U since the Wii U has the classic NES games on it

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A NES would look like crap on a LCD/Plasma display... if you can get it to work. :P

 

You could, using the Wii U since the Wii U has the classic NES games on it

Ewww, Nintendo's crappy emulation. I rather use the original hardware connected to a CRT.

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Good luck finding a hdmi adapter for that :p

Would have to use something like a surround sound system that also did HDMI pass-through to convert the analog cables to an HDMI output.

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A NES would look like crap on a LCD/Plasma display... if you can get it to work. :p

 

Ewww, Nintendo's crappy emulation. I rather use the original hardware connected to a CRT.

The little blaster gun won't work on LCD screens.  Something to do with the refresh rate.  The way it worked was that it blanked the screen and there would be colored squares on valid targets.  The gun would then register a hit if it saw a valid colored square.  The screen flashes super fast, and something to do with LCD screens knocks off the synchronization so that the screen flashes, but there's a long enough delay that when the blaster looks for a reading, the flash either hasn't yet happened or is already over.

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Yup, via HDMI pass through... :woot:

But wouldn't you still be playing it on the PS4 and just running the output through the Xbox?  You wouldn't be "playing" the game on the Xbox.

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But wouldn't you still be playing it on the PS4 and just running the output through the Xbox?  You wouldn't be "playing" the game on the Xbox.

Obviously. ;)

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The little blaster gun won't work on LCD screens.  Something to do with the refresh rate.  The way it worked was that it blanked the screen and there would be colored squares on valid targets.  The gun would then register a hit if it saw a valid colored square.  The screen flashes super fast, and something to do with LCD screens knocks off the synchronization so that the screen flashes, but there's a long enough delay that when the blaster looks for a reading, the flash either hasn't yet happened or is already over.

 

No, actually I believe it was the whole scanline prinicple that made it work. LCD's don't scanline.a CRT draws the picture from left to right line by line. they used this to know where the gun was pointed. 

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Obviously. ;)

 

Well when Valve says you can play all your PC games ont he steambox, you're also playing them on your ridiculously high end PC and streaming them...

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This has been known since at least E3

Back at E3 they said the lag would make it unpleasant. Now they are saying we won't notice the lag.. Not sure which is true though..

What's the footprint going to be on the Xbox One?.. I'm energy conscience...

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