A gamer's dream Windows 10 on PS4?

The problem with emulators is they require so much horsepower to run on PCs especially when CPUs/GPUs/SPUs are specific to consoles...they still cannot emulate all PS2 games no matter how fast your system is...I was more into xbox than PS2 during that era, so I didn't get a chance to play many PS2 games and I always wanted to play 24...so I bought it, still have it to this day, waiting for an emulator that can play it, it stutters so bad it's not playable and I ended up buying an asus G751 series laptop which is fully loaded and its still not beefy enough so I continue to wait.

However, MS on the other hand already has the 360 emulator running on technically, a slower PC, so I can see emulating 360 gmaes on PC happening, especially with Win10 and the whole xbox integration, but again, not sure if and when it will happen...any dvd drive can also read 360 games while most older PCs need a bluray to read PS4/XB1 games but time will tell. :)

Also if I were to take a stab at it, I would assume the emulator would become an app in the store, the xbox controllers already work with windows and from a marketing standpoint, think of all the PC only gamers...this would open a door to them and they may also start playing 360 games (if they package games online like they do on the xbox system) this is additional income with little effort on MS part.

spapakons said:

I want to find out if it is possible. I would do it for the challenge and for economic reasons! It would be great for a parent to just buy a PS4 to their children (and also use it as a PC) than buy both a PS4 and a PC. As for drivers, I bet they are standard AMD stuff, so I would install latest APU or whatever driver and would be OK. In worst case I would have to manually force/install the closest model.

Just get an X box One they are running Windows 10 & DX 12 now or they will be very soon .

Except that Microsoft will have lock out the option to run PC games on the Xbox One, otherwise everyone would buy one and run PC games as well. And the Windows 10 version for Xbox One it should be very limited. It is like comparing Windows Embedded with standard Windows.

I will say this one more time. The PS4 CPU will only process digitally signed Sony code. You either need to hack the CPU, or change it completely. It's an exercise in futility, just use a PC.

So it seems PS4 cannot natively run Windows. It has to be done with a x86 virtual machine that would expose the real CPU, the real GPU and as much as possible RAM, but again performance would suffer, so it is not worth the trouble... The whole point is to avoid using a virtual machine to get full performance.

spapakons said:

Hello!

I noticed that the PlayStation 4 has similar specifications to a PC, so I wonder if there would be a way to install Windows 10 on it. Of course I would try that on a spare disk, so if it doesn't work I would just connect the original disk back and forget about it. I know that probably Sony has disabled booting from the BD drive and the key combination to enter BIOS or change boot order is restricted to authorized technicians only. But we could partially install Windows 10 64-bit on a spare hard disk, using the imagex utility as described here. This is like running the setup and just before the first restart. So when we put the disk in the PS4, it will hopefully boot and resume Windows 10 Setup to the next stage. As for drivers, if Windows Update cannot find them all, we could try the latest chipset and graphics drivers directly from AMD. If successful the gamer would play either PS4 games booting from the original disk, or PC games booting from the spare into Windows 10. He could even use it as a normal PC.

Yes, it sounds crazy, but what do your think?

Yes you can, BUT you would need to either buy a new hard drive that would work with your ps4 or you would have to wipe it (I recommend buying a new hard drive)

1. Put your new/old hard drive into a PC and install windows on it (make sure that this hard drive and the one in your ps4 are the same size)

2. take the hard drive out of the pc and put it into the ps4

3. you should be finished

4. I recommend finding another tutorial online for this, because i might have explained some things incorrectly

Until next time have a fan freakin' day

ThatGamrKid said:

Yes you can, BUT you would need to either buy a new hard drive that would work with your ps4 or you would have to wipe it (I recommend buying a new hard drive)

1. Put your new/old hard drive into a PC and install windows on it (make sure that this hard drive and the one in your ps4 are the same size)

2. take the hard drive out of the pc and put it into the ps4

3. you should be finished

4. I recommend finding another tutorial online for this, because i might have explained some things incorrectly

Until next time have a fan freakin' day

Way to revive an almost 3 year old thread. Also that doesn't even remotely work.

On second thought, this COULD work if the PS4 could boot into Legacy Mode. This doesn't work for UEFI boot, so probably won't work for PS4. But hope dies last.