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Netyaroze on 07 May 2010
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sieanr said:
Netyaroze said:
sieanr said:
Netyaroze said:

A Wii emulator could be done on the PS3 and also on the 360. The Wii is not a little slower its a whole gen behind technically. 5-6 years. Wii is technically on 1999 Level. And PS3 and Xbox on 2005-2006 Level.

Stop talking like you know anything about computers.

 

Bamboleo said:
@ severance

It cannot "make" wii games go 1080p

The emulator just upscales it, which makes everything more crispy, nor properly better graphics

Dolphin can render wii games at 1080, thats just as 1080p as any PS3 game.

 

What exactly is your problem ? I havent said anything wrong. 800mhz and 128mb computers were out in 1999. Edit: Ok I give you the point that Wiis architecture is stronger then the 1999 Computers measured in GFLOPS but 2001 Computer could do everything what the WII can.

The Wii offers approximatly 10.5 GFLOPS to the developer and the Cell as found in the PS3 has (double precision) 80GFlops plus RSX it is about ten times more powerful then the Wii. And an Emulation could be done technically and btw the difference is not quite a whole gen but almost so you cant complain about my posts since its right. 

 

Except your point isn't right. The fact of the matter is the Wiis CPU and GPU can do things that no PC could do in 1999, things like hardware T&L, newer pixel and vertex shaders, HDR support, ect. So no, computers in 1999 couldn't do everything the wii can, or even in 2001 (nice moving goalpost!)

GFLOPs is a pointless argument as well. Its a fairly specific measurment of how fast a CPU or GPU is at floating point operations, which says nothing of the overall power of the system, let alone whether one system is capable of emulating another. The fact that you're so quick to trot out this long debunked myth further demonstrates how illinformed you are when it comes to computing.

BTW - my graphics card is nearly 2 years old and capable of about 2.4 TFLOPS, and the current top-tier ati card can break 4500GFLOPS - so about 24 and 46 times more powerful then the PS3 and technically capable of emulating the PS3 as they are nearly 5 generations ahead (according to your metric that 10x the gflops power "technically" allowing emulation and is equal to ~1 generation of hardware)

 

 

 

Its never that easy. And its ofcourse not all dependend on the Gflops. Even though they give you a clue what the system is able to do its ofcourse a onesided number and takes a lot of things not in account. Still I am absolutely sure that MS or Sony could program a Wii emulator on there consoles if they want to its just a matter of money and know how. 

BTW 10x/20x Gflops more power is found between the last and this gen of console hardware.

So you say its technically impossible ? 

 

I exegerated with 1999 I`ll admit it. But Xbox and Wii are on a similar level even though Wii has more advanced tech in terms of graphical computing.

 

Still I cant see a reason why PS3 and Xbox360 wouldnt be able to emulate Wii if there would be enough money and time spend in to the development. My old notebook can run Dolphin even though not very good but its way weaker then PS3 or Xbox. You can optimize a lot of things if you know that hardware wont change. Also you have a less ressource consuming OS. Note is said: that its possible if Sony or Microsoft want to since they have full control over the system and can make full use of the whole system.

 

All 3 systems have a PPC Cpu and Xbox and Wii even have both ATI GPUs. There was never a really big Emulator on the market. Except Bleem which was semiprofessional imo. If a huge Company puts its ressources behind it its possible. Unless you can name a few arguments which make totally sure its impossible.