Why PS4 needs to play PS3 games

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VGKing said:

think-man said:
Well I think every new console should have BC to at LEAST its predecessor.

Yes and if PS4 is really 6-10x more poweful than a PS3, how hard could emulation be?

The GPU should be easy enough, the CPU on the other hand very hard, is very complex to write the code to emulate the cell processor and the hardware speed required could be very beyond the PS4 power, because emulation is not very efficient and according to rumours, new generation will focus on GPU power not in CPU power.