ethomaz said:
Xbox is Intel x86... 360 is IBM PPC... they have BC... that's the same scenario. The Microsoft BC is not get your old dics an play it on the new system... there is a new version recompiled to the new system and it's not all games work. |
.They have limited bc and each game has a special emulator - it is not "recompiled". The reason they could do it was that x360 was very powerful and ms put a lot of effort in the emulator. Emulating the x360 is off, I think. To emulate THREE cores with 3,2 Ghz, even with 8 x86-cores, won't be possible. Let's try it: 8 cores with nextbox. At *least* you need 2 cores to emulate *one* ppc-core which will still be almost certainly extremely slow as the cores are meant to clock a lot lower. Then emulating instructions on another architecture is not "1 instruction here,1 instuction there": you need several cycles on the target machine to emulate on instruction from the source. So even *if* 2 new cores can by magic emulate the 3 cores, you have no gpu-emulation, no "logic"-emulation meaning synchronizing all parts of the system together, no input-emulation and so on. Won't happen, if you ask me :) But if you can argue why it could still be possible (and please not only "they did it before", that's not an argument) then post it.
I still believe they will stay at ppc and i don't know why they shouldn't or couldn't.
