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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Horses are made for running. They run pretty good, but they’re not that smart, and can’t do much else.
Humans are smart, and they are also good at acting. But we want to do horse stuff. So we put two guys in a horse costume. We had to take top athletes and they constantly need to coordinate what they’re doing which makes things awkward, but it runs like a horse now.
Consoles are designed for very specific tasks. Everything they need to do is pure instinct to them. Emulators are ways for pc’s to pretend they’re something else. But that means they need the computational power for the calculations in game, plus calculations to pretend they’re a console, plus transforming all data the game wants and generates into data the pc can interpret, and that at least 60 times per second. It’s a lot of work.
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