There are already PS4 emulators. Though they’re extremely early and work a lot closer to how Wine/Proton do rather than traditional emulation IIRC.
Aren't we at the stage where getting the game to boot to the start menu is a big deal?
I would imagine getting games running is a bit further off.
If they're bring ripped and preserved, it doesn't really matter if they work yet, in an archival sense.
Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU's as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it's more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API's those console chips use.
There are already PS4 emulators. Though they’re extremely early and work a lot closer to how Wine/Proton do rather than traditional emulation IIRC.
Aren't we at the stage where getting the game to boot to the start menu is a big deal? I would imagine getting games running is a bit further off.
If they're bring ripped and preserved, it doesn't really matter if they work yet, in an archival sense.
Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU's as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it's more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API's those console chips use.