From a technical standpoint, this is fantastic. The Steam Deck is not terribly powerful in the grand scheme of things. The fact that it runs at all is great, and signals that PS5 emulation on PC is actually pretty far along.
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What games are worth emulating? It's been a shit generation.
GoW, Ghosts of Japan, Horizon, Spidermen and definitely Astro Bot. I think there are a couple more.
Absolutely shit generation, I wont buy a playstation again.
God of War, Horizon and Spiderman are all on PC already.
But none of the sequels will be unfortunately.
All properties listed sequels are on steam too.
They're referring to future sequels, but we'll see how long that exclusivity actually lasts. Almost all of the big games come to PC eventually.
Sony said they won’t port new games to PC anymore.
They did say that. I'm saying we'll see how long that actually lasts. They still need games good enough to be system sellers and TBH I don't think Wolverine's got the juice. They'll go back on what they've said like they've done in the past. Being a patient gamer is going to pay off in the end.
Horizon and Spider-Man are on PC. no need for a ps5 to play them
Unfortunately astro bot would require an $80 controller :(
It's the only game I wanna play. Is it playable now?
Why? Do the triggers and touch not map to steam controller
I don't know
There's more, but not many exclusives
Plenty of decent stuff, but a lot of it came to PC already until sales collapsed due to PSN fuckery, and the fact that nobody can afford gaming hardware any more.
Demon's Souls remake. Astrobot. Gran Turismo 7 (although plenty of alternatives to that).
So look forward to emulating those in 10 years time when you swap a kidney for an Intel Megawank and a Nvidia 9090.
I'll be buying the AMD Megawank and 9900 XTX, thank you very much.
Astro Bot and Demon's Souls Remake. That is it.
You mean you don't want to play remakes of PS4 games?
There are like a whole 3 games that are decent and Sony doesn’t want us to play anywhere else. Irking them just for that is enough reason.
Jokes on them, I grew up playing "Frontier: Elite II" on an stock Amiga 500. My reactions peak at 0.6FPS! 🎖️
Every time I hear someone complaining about how they can't get 60fps or 120hz or whatever at 4k on some game, I think back to how I had to shrink the screen to like 1/2 of 320x200 to get 10fps on Doom in 1993
unplayable performance
It depends what you're playing. 0.6fps is fine for chess.
The input latency would probably make even chess feel bad to play
True, but I don't think we're talking about the exclusive hot PS5 release of Chess Simulator '27
I think the deck is a stretch, it’s great at what it does but I can’t see it emulating a ps5. Especially given the lack of graphical options. You are however very correct in assuming that is possible. Ps5 uses a standard architecture set based off AMD chipsets. I personally think the hardest thing to emulate would be the memory management swaps. If I recall correctly, Sony and AMD worked closely to make something akin to a complex resizable BAR and allowing quicker swaps between hdd/ram/vram.