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No PS3 backwards compatibility (lemmy.ml)

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 90 points 4 months ago (20 children)

It is hard. PS3 has incredibly specialized hardware. Even game developers had trouble making games for it at the time because it’s so arcane.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yes it is hard, and that was their damn fault. I can’t believe they expected developers to have to program which processors take which loads with such granularity. Unbelievably stupid.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Was the idea to improve performance?

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

It is, and it does provide improved performance at the expense of complexity. Both India and the US Air Force actually used clusters of PS3s to create supercomputers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor) has some more details as well

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