An Xbox Series X can now run PlayStation 5 games

The idea of PS5 games running on an Xbox Series X — made possible by how both consoles were built around closely matched hardware — is certainly exciting. An Xbox Series X can now run PlayStation 5 games, but there’s a catch. Gaming Xbox An Xbox Series X can now run PlayStation 5 games, but there’s a catch What is the PS5X Emulator for Xbox Series X and how does it work.

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 Sony and Microsoft built their current consoles around closely matched AMD hardware. Both of them have eight Zen 2 CPU cores, RDNA 2 graphics and 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and PS5 games are compiled for the same x86-64 processor architecture that PCs use. That means the KytyPS5 emulator can run their code on the host CPU instead of recreating the PS5’s hardware in software.

Its developer calls it a compatibility layer and, practically, it behaves more like a translator, converting what a PS5 game asks for into something a PC can understand.