simple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoEXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibilitywww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1494arrow-down17
arrow-up1487arrow-down1external-linkEXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibilitywww.windowscentral.comsimple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoEmulation is probably a better strategy than hardware compatibility, since future machines will have the chops to emulate current machines.
minus-squareGlassed Silver@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoEmulation is the only thing that can long-term battle the difficulties of physical platforms evolving. Doubt x86_64 will be in main consumer hardware forever. I don’t even know if ARM will be forever. It’s all just a matter of timescale.
Emulation is probably a better strategy than hardware compatibility, since future machines will have the chops to emulate current machines.
Emulation is the only thing that can long-term battle the difficulties of physical platforms evolving. Doubt x86_64 will be in main consumer hardware forever. I don’t even know if ARM will be forever. It’s all just a matter of timescale.