| daredevil.shark said: What I read at neogaf that PS3's CPU is really powerful. So much so that its difficult for PS4 to emulate it; since a generation gap in power is needed. But if they manage it then it will be awesome. |
Its not that simple. Let me complicated it for you.
I don't have specs, but I don't need those I have logic.
A common misconception of CPU's is the correlation between power and speed (clock rate). Clock rate only increases power, if the faster cpu executes more instructions in the same amount of time as the slower one. This is hard because complex instructions typically take more time.
The PS3 cpu was not only fast, but able to run complex instructions fast cause of proprietary shit or something.
Point is, trying to emulate that is going to take a cpu that is basically just as fast or at least specialized, a near impossible task when also trying to change the architecture, decent emulation of PS3 games would need a top tier PC, in a console its a pipe dream.
However, emulation is not the only way for backwards compatibility, XB1's backwards compatibility for instance, is not emulation.
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