By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
sabvre42 on 16 October 2015
Edit Thread
rolltide101x said:
Xenostar said:


are you qualified or is that more conjecture?

There is no way PS3 is ever nativley compatible on PS4, PS4 CPU doesnt have anywhere near enough power to emulate the cell.

Thankfully now that consoles are just PC's, this issue will more than likely never arrise in the future again, BC should be very straightforward for future consoles.

This is very true, it will never be an issue again on Xbox and Playstation as they are more than likely never going to move away from x86 architecture. 

 

Also about the PS3 emulation thing according to Ubisoft the PS3 CPU is actually more powerful than the PS4 CPU.... So yeah.... It is not happening (this is not directed at you)

http://media.redgamingtech.com/rgt-website/2014/10/ubisoft-cloth-simulation-ps4-vs-ps3.jpg

The cell is not necessarily "more powerful" than the PS4 CPU. The clock speed of the Cell is higher than the jaguar -- the jaguar makes up for this with significantly better parallel processing, and newer tech.

Trying to brute force a slower CPU to emulate a faster CPU is ASKING for trouble. While you could hack things to use parallelization to handle this -- it will cause threading nightmares by having things processed out of order (for example thread A is expecting the result of thread B -- but thread B gets its IO task completed first and doesn't have the most currently value of the output variable of A).