| Mr Puggsly said: Well DF didn't exactly clarify how much of the burden is being handled by hardware. |
Not as much as you think. The baked "hardware" support mostly just stems to texture formats and audio format support.
But it also likely means that Microsoft was planning backwards compatibility whilst they were designing the Xbox One.
| Mr Puggsly said: Well it seems we're on the same page really, for the most part. Its hard to say what a brute force approach on X1 BC would look like as they opted to do a few things to make that not entirely necessary. I can't help but wonder if those baked in features help with easier and more accurate emulation versus really lowered the overhead. |
Consoles can't do brute force... They don't have the hardware for that, next gen could brute force it though.
| Mr Puggsly said: In the end I think we came to the same conclusion that the PS4 simply doesn't have the power to emulate PS3 properly, full speed, or whatever. Maybe if there were some baked in features that would help, but I still think emulating the Cell is more resource intensive than the 360 CPU. When you look at the PC emulators though, the PS3 emulator is much better optimized. |
The Playstation 4 is capable of backwards compatibility. It's not capable (Like the Xbox) of brute-force emulation alongside what the PC is doing.
However.
It is well known that the 8-Core Jaguars roughly fall in line in terms of performance to that of a dual-core Haswell CPU when the application can leverage all the threads of the Jaguar.
And considering that a such a Dual-Core CPU is capable of emulating the PS3... Well. You get the idea.
Add in the fact that Sony has more intimate knowledge regarding the Cell and low-level access to their consoles, it's more than feasible.
Remember... The Cell isn't a very fast CPU, the SPE'S actually translate well to the Jaguar Cores.
Will Sony do it though? Not likely. They aren't a software engineering powerhouse like Microsoft.
| Mr Puggsly said: I'm hoping we see a notable PS3 emulator in the PS5. It would probably be handled like the PS2 emulator on PS4 though, you just buy games off the store. But if it can run those PS3 games with improved performance and 4K, that would still be great. That would allow Sony to put many PS3 games on a some sort of Game Pass clone. |
I don't think we will see Sony bother with Emulation, the Playstation 4 has affirmed that it really isn't necessary for good sales... So unless they can monetize it in someway, I doubt it will ever happen.
Happen to be proven wrong of course.
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