Sony is looking at remastering PS3 titles the same way Disney remasters movies

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foxtail said:

novasonic said:

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.

The leap from Xbox -> Xbox 360 was very big compared to Xbox 360 -> Xbox One. It was much easier to emulate the weaker Xbox overall, and even then the support for games was pretty bad, with only a few games 100% compatible with the 360, since each game had to be optomized.

And adding in the Cell chip would raise the price by another $100 right there.