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foxtail on 16 July 2014
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novasonic said:
VanceIX said:
the-pi-guy said:
PullusPardus said:

Software emulation is not expensive though, in fact its free.

When there is a working PS3 emulator capable of playing games like The Last of Us at even 15 fps, on something similar to PS4, we'll make it happen.  

As for a PS2 emulator, that can and should happen.  


PS3 emulation is impossible due to the different architecture, but PS2 and PS1 emulators should be introduced, with disc support.

This. PS2 and PS1 are old enough that the PS4 should be able to emulate them with little to no problems, but the x86 PS4 and Xbone will never be able to play the PPC based PS3 and 360 games natively. Unless you enjoy playing games at 3fps. Using x86 architecture was a good financial choice because it's cheap, but if they had used PPC there would be full 7th gen backwards compatibility and every game would run at 1080p 60fps.

The original Xbox was x86 and the X360 was PPC and it managed to do backwards compatibility through software emulation.  Is the reverse really so impossible?

They also could have just added a Cell chip to the PS4 like the early PS3 models which had an Emotion Engine chip for PS2 backwards compatibility.