[citation][nom]meat81[/nom]Cmon Sony, you think people are going to drop thier versions of PS3 and buy another one? Why not do all software emulation. God knows the current PS3 hardware can handle it, it just depends out good your damn programmers are.... Dont know about you guys but this is annoying[/citation]
It's about more than numbers. PS2 had a ridiculous architecture that involved several dedicated processors, and apparently even they can't figure out how to emulate it with software perfectly.
[citation][nom]bv90andy[/nom]pcsx2 has made so much progress that on a phenom ii x2 I can run most games with no problems. And that's an emulator that has been developed using backwards engineering from game demos, for free. How hard can it be for Sony to put 20 programmers to do a good emulator? I'm sure that the PS3 CPU can handle it, MS have done it quite good. I played a couple of XBOX games on my 360 and they work great.[/citation]
Case in point. pcsx2 has been worked on for several years and is still the only ps2 emulator with any compatibility at all. They still haven't gotten it 100 percent, and it still won't run perfectly on modern hardware. It's not about the processing power, it's about the overcomplicated architecture of the ps2.