How PS4 backwards compatibility could make Sony alot of money...

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sabvre42 said:

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).

In brute power the cell is the more powerful CPU. But as you were saying that does not make it a better cpu. But the PS4 CPU emulating the PS3 cpu can not happen, the PS4 CPU would need to be much more powerful than it is to achieve that