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Re: Evening Consolidation

Feb 21, 2013, 08:52

Verno

Styrbjorn wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 08:40:
I'm curious if the 8 cores of the PS4 are powerful enough to properly emulate the 1+7 core cell processor of the PS3. Not a given since emulation incurs large performance losses. But since the core counts line up... maybe. And if so, if it would ever be implemented. Backwards compatibility would make it a day one purchase for me.

The AMD processor they're using wouldn't be anywhere near powerful enough, some guy was hacking on a very basic emulator and said it would be a 50:1 CPU power factor and that we might not see a proper emulator for a decade. They will be using some form of Cell SoC to facilitate the streaming of PS3 games I imagine. The PS4 will just be running a streaming client for those basically.

I am disappointed in lack of BC but if it can help make the price more palatable and they have good launch games then I don't think it'll be a hard sell.




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Comment [quote="Verno"Feb 21, 2013, 08:52][quote="Styrbjorn"Feb 21, 2013, 08:40]I'm curious if the 8 cores of the PS4 are powerful enough to properly emulate the 1+7 core cell processor of the PS3. Not a given since emulation incurs large performance losses. But since the core counts line up... maybe. And if so, if it would ever be implemented. Backwards compatibility would make it a day one purchase for me. [/quote] The AMD processor they're using wouldn't be anywhere near powerful enough, some guy was hacking on a very basic emulator and said it would be a 50:1 CPU power factor and that we might not see a proper emulator for a decade. They will be using some form of Cell SoC to facilitate the streaming of PS3 games I imagine. The PS4 will just be running a streaming client for those basically. I am disappointed in lack of BC but if it can help make the price more palatable and they have good launch games then I don't think it'll be a hard sell. [/quote]

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