SvennoJ said:
fireburn95 said:
I think that 'ps3 architecture is too complicated' excuse is bull. Well, it is, but surely the company that created it knows it best, and could emulate it on hardware which they quoted as being '10x more powerful than ps3' (Mark Cerny I think)
Oh yeah I was talking about downloads rather than disc, didn't make that clear. I don't think Sony will go through that trouble when they can make far more money by making it playable without a cheap or already-bought disc.
I think ps3 emulation will come though, eventually. PS Now could always change into another cloud-based service at a moments notice designed to support PS5 while continuing to offer old games to PC and TV folk. But with sony making so much money on ps4, and ps4 games all-while impressing publishers and other third-party companies, they are sticking to that and not risking BC/emulation taking away from revenue.
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Being 10x more powerful doesn't mean it can emulate the brute force of the single minded cell spe's
You can do more with an 8 core general purpsose cpu, yet you can't emulate the raw 3.2 ghz speed of the cell, no matter how many 1.6ghz cores you have. The Cell spe cores are single threaded, there's nothing to split up. You can alter the code and split it up yourself or use more efficient code instead of using the limited instruction set of the Cell. However an emulator can't do that. It can't know where to split the instruction sets and run them parallel on different cores.
It's not impossible. Building a compiler that converts the code running on the cell to something that can run on one or more slower processors is a possibility. One that will require a lot of time and resources. Sony certainly didn't think that was worth the trouble since they're using actual ps3 hardware for ps now. It's actually 8 ps3s shrunk onto one board. It would be cool to have one of those super ps3s at home :) Lan party in a box.
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While I don't think a PS3 emulator is very likely on PS4, doesn't the three cores in Xenon present the same problem? Actually the architecture of both CPU's isn't that different (generally) from what I gather.
