Let me jut answer that while eating this orange apple banana.
this phrase makes no sense.
TitusGroan said:
What about if you still own disc copies of the games? If its an emulator, it should be able to read discs just fine, after all.
Does pS4 read CDs natively? because its very likely they decided to cut the costs with their BR drive and didnt include CD laser in it (like many new drives do now!). Its much cheaper but makes machine incapable of reading CDs. at all. so it may be a hardware limitation. or does it read CDs actually? i know Xbox dropped that support, bu it may have been software version too (doubtful)
Therumancer said:
Sounds good, but at the same time it makes me wonder if this means all that money dished out for a PS-4 is wasted, because I'm going to want to ditch the new console I just obtained for one with an included emulator... or if the emulator is going to be some kind of attachment that can be added to an existing PS-4 system.
Needless to say I'm going to be rather upset if I bought a PS-4 believing the announcement that it was not going to be backwards compatible, only to get some Sony trollface as they change their mind and roll out a new one that does what the one I just bought arguably should have to begin with.
considering that its using PC architecture and there are PS1 and PS2 emulators for PC its likely a software one and you dont need to ditch anything.
Now PS3 backward compactability.... that would be a miracle.
Therumancer said:
Well, the thing is that Sony already claimed that the problems are hardware related as opposed to software related and that they would allegedly have to include the hardware from all their other machines within the new system in order to make this work. Many defenses of the lack of backwards compatibility have invoked this alleged "fact".
This was mostly the discussions about PS3 games compactability, and in this case the "Fact" is true since PS3 uses very different architecture and its games simply wouldn't run on standard x86
mixadj said:
So your saying they might implement the same thing I've been doing on my PC for the past couple years. Its amazing what running at triple or quadruple native ps2 resolution with some smoothing will do to an older game. After I discovered emulation my PS2 has been permanently gathering dust.
you probably shouldnt say it here. emulators are technically illegal and you may end up with a warning.
Galen Marek said:
So, yet again Sony makes many promises and then several months later after they "win" proceed go back on their world.
Sony you sly devil you, the masses followed your devilish ploy yet again without realizing the inevitable pattern.
wait what? what promises they broke with announcing that you can emulate PS1/2 games on standard PC hardware?
Casual Shinji said:
The original fat PS3's also had emulation through firmware updates, at least they did in Europe. And not all games responded all that well to it. Some ran fine, but others were shit, with frame rates getting cut in half and screens getting smushed. This apparently had to do with NTSC vs. PAL or something.
So if they're trying something like that again, they'd best include emulation for both NTSC and PAL.
Anyway, sounds great, but I'll believe it when I see it.
No, the PS3s had hardware chip that allowed them to play older games. it wasnt a software emulator, merely software that started using the chip. later versions did away with the chip (and enormous PS3 price tag) and didnt have such ability anymore.
the NTSC and PAL problem shoudl be minimal nowadays as TVs are stnadartized and can do both and even switch on demand. the console needs to tell the TV what its inputting but it already does with regular PS4 use anyway.
