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Unless they move away from the x86 arc again in the next generation, we might actually see a very high percentage of backwards compatibility in that switch.
by warcode 13y ago
Unless they move away from the x86 arc again in the next generation, we might actually see a very high percentage of backwards compatibility in that switch.
- masklinn 13y agoIf developers stick to high-level APIs for both CPU and GPU. The changes of that are pretty low.
- ygra 13y agoI guess a next-gen console can just emulate the low-level APIs for older games.
- masklinn 13y agoThe 360 attempted to do that[0]. It wasn't exactly successful, and computing power improvements from one generation to the next shrink over time. There's no way you'll be able to emulate a PS3 on a PS5, let alone a PS4, save finally achieving quantum computing and managing to put that in a console. [0] the PS3 did not even bother, early revisions just bundled PS2 hardware wholesale.