One day PS3 will emulate the Wii

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Bamboleo 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.

I think you are wrong. Sorry if I'm mistaken, but the emulator acts as a simple upscaler.

That doesn't mean more detailed textures and better lighting effects, like in the HD consoles.

You are wrong in the first sentence and right in the second.

An emulator can render at a higher resolution than the target console (if the hardware it runs on is powerful enough) but it would still need to use the assets on the disc.

Think of it that way, an emulator could render a NES game in 1080p VERY EASILY but it wouldn't make the sprites HD, for this you would need to replace the sprites (like they did in the super street fighter 2 HD on xbox live and PSN).

If they only upscaled they would render in 480p and take that image and stretch it to fit 1080p.

Rendering directly in 1080p is not gonna make it as good as a HD game but still better than upscaled (as less jaggies).

To everyone else: don't forget that the PS3's PPC core is in-order processing whereas the Wii's core is out-of-order processing so a straight MHz to MHz comparison is useless as simply downclocking the PS3's PPC core to the Wii's core speed would result in it being slower than the Wii's core.

Also it might be easier to emulate the Wii on the 360 as it has ATI graphics, like the Wii. I say might as that depends on whether the 360's GPU retains enough of ArtX's stuff to make it more similar to the Wii's GPU than the PS3's GPU.