| ▲ | jokoon 20 hours ago | |
I wonder if that architecture was designed to prevent emulation. Because emulators still work insanely hard to make those games work, even today. | ||
| ▲ | dlcarrier 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
It's more so that every generation afterward has used the same architecture as most computers, making emulation more of a compatibility layer than actual emulation. Development kits for the Xbox 360 used Power Mac G5s, because they were the same architecture as the Xbox 360, and modern Xbox and PlayStation development kits use x86 processors, again because there's no change in architecture. Granted, you can't easily get a computer with a cell processor, but it isn't because of a lack of trying. Sony worked with IBM and Toshiba on designing and manufacturing the cell processor, and all three developed products using it, but the only one that was successful was Sony's PlayStation 3, but its success was likely despite the cell processor, not because of it. | ||
| ▲ | maximilianburke 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
No, they were optimizing for FLOPS/$. | ||
| ▲ | smallpipe 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Doubt it. Avoiding jailbreak sure to keep selling games, but no one cares about emulators. | ||