Console Games on PC

[EmmaMay]

This question is in regards to console only releases of this and the past generation, ones that the gamedev's haven't released on PC.

 

Maybe one day emulators or some kind of loaders will be available for the most recent generations

[Cereal_Killer]

Vote for turnip!

 

Jk, obviously playing Console only games on PC is better, expanding your library with some awesome titles such as Skate 3 or Super Mario Galaxy would be awesome

[manikyath]

well, the latest generation of consoles are basicly PCs with a proprietary OS on them, and in a cool package. ("cool" not in the literal sense...)

 

the problem with emulating is that your computer usually needs to be an order of magnitude faster than the console its emulating, and on top of that someone needs to sing a ton of time in actually engineering the damn emulator.

 

an example: the wii is about the most high end we can emulate right now in a decent manner, together with the PS2.

their specs are as follows:

wii:

- IBM powerpc single core, 729MHz

- ati "hollywood" graphics chip (90nm, 243MHz)

- 88MB ram, 3MB texture memory and frame buffer

which takes a quite decent pc to emulate

PS2:

- sony's own "emotion engine" RISC processor thats a proprietary piece of voodoo.

- EDIT oh, and a whopping 32MB of ram.

[ShadowCaptain]

19 minutes ago, EmmaMay said:

This question is in regards to console only releases of this and the past generation, ones that the gamedev's haven't released on PC.

 

Maybe one day emulators or some kind of loaders will be available for the most recent generations

 

I would prefer for real ports to be made to pc, enhanced with PC features 

 

I would settle for an emulator 

 

Will it be possible? probably not (at least not for a long time) honestly, if I want to play the exclusives I will just buy the console

 

Do i believe exclusives should exist? as a customer/consumer, no, as a business I understand why

[AlTech]

19 minutes ago, EmmaMay said:

This question is in regards to console only releases of this and the past generation, ones that the gamedev's haven't released on PC.

 

Maybe one day emulators or some kind of loaders will be available for the most recent generations

I disagree with emulation but i'm all for devs porting Console games to PC.

[papapoi]

as an purchaser of almost every game system since the atari 2600  including the old pong system back in the 80's even a 3DO and the philips CD-i(what was i thinking?), i hope that the game developers start releasing games for the PC the same time as consoles, but as we all know certain games drive hardware sales, so i guess i will still have that internal struggle to decide to get a ps4(i have 2 xb1's) just to play uncharted. btw i also own a full set of hyperspin which gets me my fix on old console games, without having to hook the old systems up  

[Sauron]

I'd rather have a decent pc port, but if I have no choice an emulator is better than nothing - I'd rather use that than pay for a dedicated box in this case, assuming it works just as well or better.

25 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Will it be possible? probably not (at least not for a long time) honestly, if I want to play the exclusives I will just buy the console

Technically it should be possible to make some sort of compatibility layer as opposed to a straight up emulator, since the consoles use x86 - something like wine is conceivable. Of course without the manufacturer's cooperation that becomes a lot harder.

[ShadowCaptain]

Just now, Sauron said:

I'd rather have a decent pc port, but if I have no choice an emulator is better than nothing - I'd rather use that than pay for a dedicated box in this case, assuming it works just as well or better.

Technically it should be possible to make some sort of compatibility layer as opposed to a straight up emulator, since the consoles use x86 - something like wine is conceivable. Of course without the manufacturer's cooperation that becomes a lot harder.

 

POSSIBLY, its x86 but I am not sure if any of the hardware is proprietary, such as the PS4 using DDR5 shared ram etc - it might take a bit more work

( I have no idea) 

[Sauron]

Just now, ShadowCaptain said:

 

POSSIBLY, its x86 but I am not sure if any of the hardware is proprietary, such as the PS4 using DDR5 shared ram etc - it might take a bit more work

( I have no idea) 

I guess the xbone version would be easier, but given fast enough ram or vram it should still be possible - the layer would need to tell the game which memory should be considered "ram" for each purpose. Of course I'm talking very generally, I wouldn't have a clue on how to actually do that.

[LordLeewee]

if we're wishing for things, give me cross platform online gameplay. i have an xbox one thats played nothing but gta online in 12 months, because i have a lot of friends who play it on xbox live. i have it on pc too and play all my other games online. i imagine ill be back on xbox fro rocket league when the same friends buy that in the next few weeks, because no cross platform again. 

[Praesi]

When Devs port, they should do it right. Not pathetic examples like DarkSouls. Otherwise Consoles should keep their Crap.

[branden_lucero]

nope. this is the very reason why i modded my PS2. so that i can play ROMS on the HDD that's installed on it with McBoot.