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No PS3 backwards compatibility (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Xbox One plays a number of 360 games fine.

Apple used QuickTransit for their PPC apps on Intel migration to great success.

I guess Sony just didn't want to pay the emulator tax?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Apple did the same again with their ARM migration and in my experience it worked great. I believe Microsoft also has a solution for running x86 software on ARM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But Apple’s solution isn’t pure software emulation, the SoC has special hardware inside to make it translate a lot faster.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The original Rosetta, which was emulating PPC on x86 is directly comparable to the situation of PS3-game-on-PS4 hardware. I was able to play Halo CE for Mac on x86 with Rosetta and it felt native.

The point is that this isn't a limitation of technology, this was a decision on Sony's part.

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