| walsufnir said: Sure the patent is somehow different - just wanted to show that most "new" ideas have been engineered long ago and are not new ideas. Not offending, of course. And I have to disagree: A PS3-hacker once stated that a full-feature emulator on PS3 but i can't find the link now.
But read this: http://wololo.net/2012/11/13/has-sony-resumed-ps2-emulation-on-the-ps3/ especially the "sum up". |
It wasn't taken in offense. My point was only that the idea presented in the patent was something more elegant.
I think the PS3 was capable of a full-featured PS2 emulator, I think Sony just stopped work on it because software emulation has no financial reward. So for Sony they would have been investing a lot of money into an emulator that didn't provide any monetary return, other than presumably sales. I don't believe, unless you have significantly more than 4 cores, that it would be possible to emulate a PS3 and it would require a significant amount of effort in order to do so.
Hardware emulation of the PS3, for the PS4, in the short-term provides the best investment for Sony.
