this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
620 points (96.8% liked)

Technology

60058 readers
2807 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 116 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the steam deck is genuinely the only console worth buying these days.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I REALLY want Sony to release a handheld that can run PS1, PS2 and PS3 games 🥺

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

So...steamdeck lol

[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Wait can it run ps3 emulators?

Double wait are ps3 emulators working now? I remember pscx2 or whatever being buggy as shit.

TLDR I'm ancient in internet years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I’ve had good experiences emulating PS2 on my Steam Deck. PS3 I haven’t gotten anything to run well enough that I’d call it enjoyable. Some don’t run at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

To be fair, PS2 emulation is still not that great, but I guess it's due to sheer amount of games for that system. Last summer I decided to check the PS2 emulation after 10 year break and 2 out of 3 games I tested didn't work properly. Granted, those are kinda niche games (Transformers (2004) and Free Running), but compatibility still needs work. Hardware requirements are decently low for the games that do work, though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'm gonna blow your mind by telling you there are already working PS4 and Xbox One emulators, although both only support a small number of games so far

PS3 and Xbox 360 can be emulated very well by a modern PC, the majority of games work without glitches

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

PS3 is the trickiest. They had that weird Cell architecture which is more difficult to emulate than simply "less-powerful x86" emulation required for more-recent consoles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

PS4 is actually easier to emulate than PS3, because former has regular x86 architecture, but latter has a very weird CELL/PowerPC architecture CPU.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

RPCS3 can run most PS3 games but Steam Deck may fall short in some of them. Recommended specs include 6 core CPU but Deck has 4.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's also worth noting that even Sony can't be bothered to properly emulate the PS3, which has resulted in many PS3-era games being remade into either native PC versions, or PS4/5 titles.

While it's true that there are still some PS3-exclusive games that aren't available in other formats, many of them are, so most people can get pretty far without needing PS3 emulation.

I only bring that up for anyone that may think they need PS3 emulation, but maybe haven't been made aware of newer remakes or native PC ports of the games they're actually looking for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Going by core count alone is a pretty shitty metric for CPU performance. The 4 core APU in the steam deck will outperform an 8 core bulldozer cpu by any metric

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Except for power consumption and heat generation ;-) This is where Bulldozers were hot shit!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust Sony to not fuck that up somehow like everything they do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They'd give it a 2 hour battery 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Playing witcher 2 at decent FPS only gives me 2 hours on the original steam deck

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

To be honest my steam Deck doesn't go that far beyond 4h either on a single charge when I lower all the settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's the one drag for me about the PS5 contrllers, the battery life before recharging. The PS3 controller did great, but the PS5 ones have so many features built in they die to quick for my liking.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Vita can Run 99% of PS1 games "natively" and has a bunch of PS2 ports (some through PSP). Not PS3 though.