Can MS & Sony just simply make next gen fully BC?

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I think you're comparing the PC emulators, which isn't a fair comparison because that isn't equal optimization. I'm simply pointing out you still need a powerful CPU to make PS3 emulator run well on a PC. Hence, I'm reluctant to believe PS4's CPU can emulate the PS3 well.

Not sure you are understanding anything... So I will try another method.

Why do you think the PS4 is unable to emulate the PS3 well?

Mr Puggsly said:

Xbox 360 BC started rough, improved significantly, but still has limitations likely due to the hardware. Not every game is a locked 30 or 60 fps. Halo: Reach was a fairly early BC release and the biggest issue was frame pacing. It really feels like BC performance has hit a wall and I don't believe Crysis is gonna see much improvement in performance.

If they decreased accuracy they can increase performance.
A SNES Emulator with 100% accuracy can bring down even the fastest CPU's today.

I think you need to take look at how Microsoft is actually achieving backwards compatibility though. - It's not pure emulation.

Well Sony hasn't attempted to make a PS3 emulator, but I'm not arguing its impossible to make that happen on PS4. The consensus has been the PS4 CPU just doesn't have the power needed. The PS3 emulator on PC requires a powerful CPU to operate at full speed but that's just an example that exist right now.

I watched the DF video discussing how Xbox 360 BC works and he says the hardware is handling some functions outside of emulation. Maybe going that route helps with some of the overhead of emulation but the X1 hardware itself is still doing heavy lifting on emulation and why X1X gets better results.

Essentially, getting 7th gen content to emulate at full speed may be a struggle with 8th gen specs. 9th gen specs on the other hand should have more than enough power to emulate 360 or PS3 easily. While 8th gen content we assume will be handled natively.