How do game consoles manage to play games? They are inferior in physical hardware to computers, but they manage to outperform them. The xbox series s has 10 gigabytes of ram and 4 teraflops. On pc some games would not run with that or would run way worse.
Some old games, like xbox 360 games, cannot be emulated on PC, even with a modern computer, as they will run poorly, but they somehow work on that old hardware. Even if ported to mobile hardware, like the Nintendo Switch, they manage to make the game work, even if that console has less power than the PC.
What do game developers do to optimize for specific hardware and why it cannot be replicated on PC? There are only 2 major CPU suppliers and 2 major GPU suppliers, excluding Intel integrated graphics. Even the ram on pc is interchangeable as long as it is the right DDR generation.
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Usually consoles do not perform better. They just have their graphics settings decreased to keep frame rate more consistent.
Most of the time the reason things are difficult to emulate, is because the processor on the console is an entirely different architecture than a desktop processor. So “translating” a console CPU code into desktop CPU code decreases performance.
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