HollyGamer said:
He is right tho, you need almost every platform to become god gamers, but god gamers is only for people who have a lot spare time, and money, or your life really in to gaming (i don't mind if our world is in gaming Industry like journalist, game developer etc)
Even if we own a PC doesn't guaranteed us able to play many platform for example PS2 emulation took very long time to make it happen on PC, i bet PS3 will be more difficult to emulate , PS4 maybe will get emulated easily but also need to wait for it or maybe need more time (like Xbox original) even thou PS4 and Xbox Original made from modified PC part, the way the code and the system work different form PC. and also you need a more then a standard PC. |
I laugh when I read people talking about emulation like its an easy thing to do. If people really knew what they were talking about with regards to emulation then they would know why its silly to even mention it.
The layman will say, "but hey, my PC is (insert number of times here) more powerful than the PS2/PS3. It would be a breeze emulating it". Or, "the XB1/PS4 is based on 64bit PC architecture. Watch me emulate it on my uber powerful gaming rig"
Nonsense.
The only way to accutately emulate anything (especially x86 hardware) is if you have the hardware inbuilt into a system or you have all the documentation for all the algorithms for that particular hardware set up. Not just the processor, but how the procesor communicates with its specific RAM set up, clocks IO bus...etc. The problem is not having hardware powerful enough to run the emulation, its getting software that your hardware can run. And its acompletely different can of worms when you are trying to emulate hardware based on entirely different architectures from what you are running.
When people say X86, they make it sound like its just on particular type of code base... they couldn't be more wrong. Thats why till this day its extremely hard to emulate the OG xbox. And all this is made evenmore complicated by about a thousand fold when going from X86 to X64 hardware. Till this day, the full documentation of X86/64 is not even known.
This is not saying that with enough people on it emulation of the PS4/Xb1 will not be possible, but by the time that happens, we would probably be on the PS6/XB3.
