cheesecake said:
fatslob-:O said:
cheesecake said:
fatslob-:O said:
PigPen said:
This I would love to see. |
Go get a PC to do it now. It will probably be able to emulate the WII U in like 3 years ? That way you can have the ultimate platform compared to a company that likely won't compete for next generation.
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funny you should say that. the PS4/Xbox One will most likely be easier to emulate due to the simple fact that there is nothing stopping the hackers, no Cell/PowerPC arch, no foreign arch, they're PCs with Sony/MS taped on them.
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Except none of you guys here know about emulation. The WII U's cpu is almost exactly the same as the WII's but only this time it has 3 cores instead of one and a bumped up clock while featuring a slightly more modern istruction set architecture. As for its GPU it has an insanely low bandwidth while also coming from the old crappy VLIW5 architecure. The only issue I see here is the EDRAM.
As for the PS4 and xbone I don't think any PC's could hope to emulate either of them let alone PS4 because DDR3 has a low bandwidth. Even though xbone features DDR3 it has a bigger bus width giving it the ability to have more bandwidth than what PC's feature everyday on DDR3.
So when all is said and done the WII U is by far the easiest to emulate disregarding the lack of documentation ofcourse.
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if you wanted to emulate a WiiU, you'd need to write some serious code for the PowerPC architecture and all that shit. you barely have anything to do for a PS4/XboxOne emulator. it's always been: easier to program for = easier to emulate. we still don't have PS360 emulators and you're talking about the WiiU?
anyways, that last bit in your first post just proved that you are pretty much biased against Nintendo, i've seen you act like that on all the threads i've seen you one pretty much, that automatically makes you close-minded.
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PPC emulation can be done, check out http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/ but emulating another architecture means a significant drop in performance. The powerPC is a great chip, way better floating point than AMD/Intel but it is not used often enough. IBM announced a big initiative to try and revive it's fortunes in big data settings with the power 8. But unless you can recompile and port... it is not useful. Great for linux folks, hell for windows end users.
The specs on PS4/XB1 are not sufficcient to make emmulation practical.
As for the OP, I take it as a given that even at 600-1000 range a steambox will be significantly more powerful than any console this gen. I don't know whether I will build my own or buy thiers, but unless it is a hasswell iris pro with no dedicated card, it will do just fine spec wise. The haswell iris pro will still do 1080p at 60 FPS on some games. The AMD apu designs are what you are getting in the consoles. even an AMD A10-6800 will be similar to the performance of this gen of consoles. That would mean a very cheap steambox.
I want an NVIDIA 760 or 770 for a steambox, at 1080p livingroom resolutions it would kick ass.
Consider me a day one steambox owner either way (build or buy). Digital distribution, modding, kerbal space program... I'm in.
