Kadve
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Just a thought that struck me.
We know historically that there are five major ways to achieve BC on a console; Full on hardware based (first gen PS3, 7800, Wii U etc), repurposed hardware (PS2, Mega Drive etc, where the cpu of their predecessor also serves a separate function), having the same architecture (Wii and presumably Series X and PS5), Hybrid software/hardware (second gen PS3) and full on software (Xbox 360, One, PS vita etc).
Now out of these, Anything that makes use of software will never offer full BC due to the nature of emulating stuff, and with console designs of today, repurposing old hardware isn't feasible either (And reusing the same architecture has been kinda rare until now). That off course leaves the full on hardware based one but which instead has the problem of driving up the price of a console for something not everyone might use/need.
So i was thinking, why not simply redesign the old console (take it down to it's bare essentials, like the Vita tv or Wii mini) so that it can interface with the new one and add BC that way? Not unlike say, something like the modules used by the LaserActive. (which was off course really expensive, but hey, what wasn't with that thing?)
I would at least buy something like that for maybe 100$ or so depending on how old said console was.
Like mentioned, it was mostly just a thought of mine i wanted to share and kinda curious if it would be even feasible to begin with.
We know historically that there are five major ways to achieve BC on a console; Full on hardware based (first gen PS3, 7800, Wii U etc), repurposed hardware (PS2, Mega Drive etc, where the cpu of their predecessor also serves a separate function), having the same architecture (Wii and presumably Series X and PS5), Hybrid software/hardware (second gen PS3) and full on software (Xbox 360, One, PS vita etc).
Now out of these, Anything that makes use of software will never offer full BC due to the nature of emulating stuff, and with console designs of today, repurposing old hardware isn't feasible either (And reusing the same architecture has been kinda rare until now). That off course leaves the full on hardware based one but which instead has the problem of driving up the price of a console for something not everyone might use/need.
So i was thinking, why not simply redesign the old console (take it down to it's bare essentials, like the Vita tv or Wii mini) so that it can interface with the new one and add BC that way? Not unlike say, something like the modules used by the LaserActive. (which was off course really expensive, but hey, what wasn't with that thing?)
I would at least buy something like that for maybe 100$ or so depending on how old said console was.
Like mentioned, it was mostly just a thought of mine i wanted to share and kinda curious if it would be even feasible to begin with.
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