An Xbox Series X Can Now Run PlayStation 5 Games, But There's A Catch

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What is the PS5X Emulator for Xbox Series X and how does it work?

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In a YouTube video that went live on September 8, developer Devran Cosmo Uenal booted the PlayStation 5 version of Quake II on an Xbox Series X and played it with an Xbox controller. But the game was running through PS5X, Uenal's Xbox port of the open-source PS5 emulator KytyPS5, and he has gotten three more PS5 games working alongside it.

The fact that he's managed to get PS5 games running on an Xbox at all is super cool, but there's a catch: PS5X only works in the console's official Developer Mode, where Microsoft's documentation caps games at 5GB of memory. That unfortunately rules out the majority of current-gen games, and there's no public download for anyone else to try yet.

How PS5X works

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