[ Curiosity ] How Many Dreamcasts Will It Take to Match a PS4

[alvin777]

Hi. Supposing indie homebrew developers and Dreamcast hardware people (like the makers of Hanzo VGA box and GDEMU) combined forces to create a Dreamcast Cluster/Farm that'll be able to emulate Shenmue 3 (plus 1 & 2 remakes if it's made- preferably by Night Dive company coz' they love remaking classis retro games), how many Dreamcasts would it it to match the Playstation if the Playstation is 1.84 Teraflops and the Dreamcast is 1.5 Gigalops? Shenmue 3 could be played on a Dreamcast hardware with a Dreamcast controller (maybe with VMU function and graphics) for that Dreamcast nostalgia free (we all of course wanted all the Shenmues in the Dreamcast in english. It's the best open world still even if you also like GTA 5 and Fallout 3, 4).

There is a Playstation 3 Cluster/Farm that the US military uses. If Playstation can, Dreamcast can to (it could mean for those who have a lot of Dreamcasts at home can cluster). After perhaps Shenmue it can be used for noble purposes:

http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html

Just an idea that could be game changing.

God bless, Rev. 21:4

[Roel]

how many Dreamcasts would it it to match the Playstation if the Playstation is 1.84 Teraflops and the Dreamcast is 1.5 Gigalops

1840 / 1.5 = 1227 Dreamcasts. Sounds like a waste of perfectly good Dreamcasts to me.

[Presbytier]

That is not exactly how computing works. You can't just scale hardware for a 1:1 performance ratio

[Roel]

True, but I think my point still stands.

[Presbytier]

Yes it does also considering the fact that emulation usually requires a machine to be 2-4 times faster than the machine it is emulating that number starts getting pretty high.