This is getting absurd. I can’t believe we can emulate Playstation 3 and Switch to some degree and now even Playstation 5 is attempted on the Deck. Before the Deck came out, I only expected to play indie games and older AAA games on the device. I’m literally flabbergasted right now, at the prospect of playing at least one PS5 game on the Deck. And because of the technical similarities of the systems, it’s not even just a wishful thinking. Guys, am I getting crazy?
I mean it was 0.6FPS… That’s 100x slower than realtime. It’s great PS5 emulation is making strides, but you wont be playing anything on the deck…
We’re also talking about a ~2 Tflops GPU in the Deck vs the PS5’s 10, right? And half the CPU, being generous.
I’m not sure it’s even theoretically practical on the deck, for all but the absolute lightest of games.
Has there ever been a case of emulation working with less compute than the original platform? I can’t think of any. But with the pricing in 2026+ that’s kinda the situation for many gamers.
Has there ever been a case of emulation working with less compute than the original platform?
I just remembered your comment. Looks like it finally happened, PS5 games emulated on a PS4: https://github.com/blue0x1/EmuFive
The thing is, like we talked before about the Steam Deck, it does not emulate the entire CPU. Like on PC games run on same CPU instruction set with less compute, therefore runs less good, but it can run up to a certain degree. That’s why lightweight games can work, especially if the emulator is tweaked to not emulate the game 1:1 anyway, to save some cycles. It’s kind of cursed.
That makes sense. There are definitely some PS5 games that don’t make use of all its features/hardware.
