I know there's a thing about emulating old systems for the sake of preserving gaming or just as a challenge, but this question is more about those who wish to emulate games to re-experience a game they cherished from the past that they would like to play again years later when they no longer have the hardware to do it. For example people love to emulate mario and zelda games. What games / franchises from recent generations do you think people will want to emulate in the future?
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In the future, will people want to emulate todays games?
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rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Every one that don't have a native PC version.
Shifty1897
Member
People are emulating brand new Switch games before they even officially release these days, so yes.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
it’ll be a much smaller niche IMO. Nowadays we have:
- most games are on PC
- backwards compatible consoles
- nearly every halfway decent game gets a remaster, remake, or definitive edition on newer hardware
- most games are on PC
- backwards compatible consoles
- nearly every halfway decent game gets a remaster, remake, or definitive edition on newer hardware
Fbh
Member
There's probably always going to be a desire for emulation and a niche community that's in there for the challenge of getting it to work.
That said I think current gen consoles are going to be a bit less appealing simply because almost everything seems to release on PC these days. All major third parties, every MS exclusive and increasingly more Sony games too.
Back in the Ps3/360 era it made more sense as there were tons of games unplayable on PC, want to play Lost Odyssey? or Killzone 2? or Uncharted1-3? Or Ninja Gaiden 2? On PC? You better hope someone gets an emulator working.
The number of console only games this gen is really small, and it's probably going to be smaller in 5 years.
That said I think current gen consoles are going to be a bit less appealing simply because almost everything seems to release on PC these days. All major third parties, every MS exclusive and increasingly more Sony games too.
Back in the Ps3/360 era it made more sense as there were tons of games unplayable on PC, want to play Lost Odyssey? or Killzone 2? or Uncharted1-3? Or Ninja Gaiden 2? On PC? You better hope someone gets an emulator working.
The number of console only games this gen is really small, and it's probably going to be smaller in 5 years.
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LazyParrot
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People will try to emulate older games as long as they have access to the game files and hardware powerful enough to develop and run an emulator on.
By that I mean emulation will be around until gaming inevitably starts moving to the cloud.
By that I mean emulation will be around until gaming inevitably starts moving to the cloud.
crackajack
Member
With MS being practically all in on PC and Sony barely less, both controllers being supported, only Nintendo keeping their games locked to their plattform (VR2 too I suppose), the actual neccessity for some game preservation argument is quite low. Even if some PC ports are releasing in a questionable quality, mostly those are the best version. Windows 12/14/15 etc might struggle to offer eternal compatibility, but I would assume games that are actually worth to preserve will get remasters just to be sold again and again.
I guess Sony will emulate their PS3 also officially, instead of having to offer actual PS3s for way too long. Might be easier to do, than replacing and maintaining the required but probably already very limited numbers of Cells for PS Plus streaming.
I guess Sony will emulate their PS3 also officially, instead of having to offer actual PS3s for way too long. Might be easier to do, than replacing and maintaining the required but probably already very limited numbers of Cells for PS Plus streaming.
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CuteFaceJay
Member
Can't wait to emulate those service games.
Cert.in.Death
Member
The future belongs to the machines; there will be no people.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Explain further.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
I recently emulated Forza Horizon 1. Is it very old game or a brand new one?
Damigos
Member
Neither, you re the exception
Damigos
Member
I ve met almost exclusively people that want to either emulate relatively new games because its a cheaper (and maybe better) way to play the latest eg switch games or the emulate old games because of nostalgia. Eg SNES or PS1 era. I ve met no one that actively emulates from the X1 / PS4 era for example.
I know that all exceptions may be inside this forum, i am just talking about my personal experience with people that emulate
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
In the future, people don't want to be reminded of today's woke trash
Fabieter
Member
People wont make new ps and xbox emulators. The main reason people did was because in the past those consoles had so many games not available on pc. That's not the case anymore. People only cared to preserve exclusive games. So it makes sense that people will still emuluate switch 2 games.
Lucifers Beard
Member
Always. There will be people that want to play today's games in the future.
Although with the way systems are designed backwards compatibility is likely to be something taken forward in the future so we may not need to emulate until backwards compatibility is no longer an option.
Although with the way systems are designed backwards compatibility is likely to be something taken forward in the future so we may not need to emulate until backwards compatibility is no longer an option.
killatopak
Member
Most games, yes.
Some games I will play natively, warts and all. It might sound crazy but some techincal shortcoming can be seen as added charm.
Some games I will play natively, warts and all. It might sound crazy but some techincal shortcoming can be seen as added charm.
Ev1L AuRoN
Member
I think will be less necessity thanks to improve backwards compatibility in the console space, also the tendency of console exclusives to get a PC release. But I think it's still important to the preservation of games, especially games being delisted or not compatible with modern hardware.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Because there is no functional X1/PS4 emulator yet. Tons of people emulate PS2, PS3, Xbox, X360.
Holammer
Member
I'm already emulating today's games... Today.
Of course people will be playing them emulated or via backcompat. Kids growing up now will be nostalgic about the current gen stuff 10-20 years from now. I expect Live service games to get resurrected with community run stuff like Project 1999.
Dr.Morris79
Member
Nothing can emulate that much joy.
We'll probably have like 5 Switch2 emulators in the future and two barely working emulators for PS5 and one for XB that can only emulate the Series S, but only for a couple games.
I have no idea where the future of these current games consoles will be tbh. Most of them require some sort of Day 1 patch to be decent and I don't know if people are actually trying to preserve various versions(day 1 release or fully patched end version).
I have no idea where the future of these current games consoles will be tbh. Most of them require some sort of Day 1 patch to be decent and I don't know if people are actually trying to preserve various versions(day 1 release or fully patched end version).
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
Of course not, we will all be emulating Pong through PS4 but definitely stop at the PS5 gen. Emulation from PS6 onward will be popular, tough.
A.Romero
Member
Yes but I suspect it won't be as popular as we are seeing a big divergence from classic gaming to what is popular now (GaaS and such).
Kids these days are not that interested in what, for example, PS2 had to offer. Once the generation born in the 80's dies popularity of these games will plummet.
Kids these days are not that interested in what, for example, PS2 had to offer. Once the generation born in the 80's dies popularity of these games will plummet.
WitchHunter
Banned
You'll have no say what you gonna play. The virtuaverse will say this platformer is good to your synapses and you must play it for good behaviour coins.
Gameplay Gods Bless
Member
Which almost none of them thess last 2 gens.
nial
Member
Most of the woke stuff is already on PC, people will be emulating games like Bloodborne, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Driveclub.
Ulysses 31
Member
We'll have 8K remasters of 8th and 9th gen games.