eli5 If video game consoles are essentially just weaker computers, why did it take so long for PCs to get 7th gen console emulators, why are we only just getting 8th gen emulators, and how long until we see 9th gen emulators?
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Consoles contain some very specific hardware dedicated to certain tasks like rendering 3D models in a certain way, or synthesizing sounds in a certain way. Since they’re not using standard PC methods of doing these things, a PC can only do so much of the processing in its own dedicated hardware, and has to do the rest on its CPU. CPUs are very general-purpose components; they’re pretty much never as good as dedicated hardware at doing any particular task. So, given how hard a PC has to work to emulate the various components of a video game console, emulation is typically about two generations behind.
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