4000+ games backwards compatible Day 1. PSN library carries over to PS5

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hinch said:

mZuzek said:

I know things aren't as simple as this, but I find it funny that the best PlayStation emulator on PC is the one Sony can't emulate on their own hardware.

Yeah it can emulate them on RPCS3. Though only a portion of games work and thats with years of work (think 9 years). And even then the performance just isn't there even with the highest end CPU's bruteforcing it. A lot of games would also need patches to get good performance. So, its not worth it for Sony :P

Still not a legitimate argument.

The Cell processor is actually comparatively simple compared to 8x Zen cores in the next-gen consoles and the Cell is orders-of-magnitude slower... It's just those Zen cores will be easier to work with as it's been built on top of decades worth of understanding and improvements with x86, the tools, pipelines, documention etc' have been built for it.

Besides, the Playstation 3 emulator is still head and shoulders better than the Xbox 360 emulator and they both started development around the same time.
And there is a simple reason for that... Each Cell SPU/SPE can be translated to an individual x86 CPU core as each SPE is pretty much a "dumb core" so getting good performance out of PS3 emulation is proving to be much simpler than say... PS2 emulation was.

Sony is also in a far better position to make a high-performing, high-compatible emulator as it has the low-level documentation to emulate the ISA, PC-emulators tend to work by "guessing" and "reverse engineering" with lots of translation/cutting/interpreting of instructions.