It’s come down to how much does Xbox want to control? Have they let everyone screw around enough and decided to take control of their platform? From Xbox’s eyes, I see that’s how they make their knew Arcade company that aligned with them with classic games to keep that service relevant as well as Game Pass. If everyone just uses emulators, then you have no Game Pass to sell, except for online play.
But, remember the PS3 era? When PlayStation removed Linux, George Hotz cracked the PS3 and PlayStation went after him. Anonymous timed out their hack well enough to cripple the PS3 at a really bad time. It could happen to Xbox and that’s the risk. They’d be foolish to think they can’t be hacked. Everyone blamed Sony for having a weak security system but nobody is immune, not even the FBI and Microsoft have seen hacks before, but when you start to dictate how someone is able to use their Personal Computer (yes the Xbox is a personal computer), you risk some pushback, you risk retaliation. If a hacking group doesn’t like the way you’re doing business, they’ll come after you. White Hackers don’t live in grandmas basement and dedicate their life to causing problems. Like a cop, they’re always 10 steps behind the criminal because they work 8 hours and go home and life their life. The criminal dedicates all their life and has nothing better to do so they think of ways and find ways to break through.
I’m not saying it’s the wrong thing to do, Xbox, but I am saying be careful when playing around fire
