• cm0002@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Like, how do you even screw this up? Sony…the ones who have access to all the super secret technical documents, full source codes, CAD drawings, prototypes, probably even people still working there who worked on it originally etc. Things that many who work on the open source emulators can only dream of seeing.

    Made a shit emulator.

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      5 months ago

      Creating a good emulator takes a lot of time and money, and that I think is the true reason why.

      What they have released is a MVP, a minimum viable product, it checks all the boxes for a releaseable thing and that’s what the higher ups, the product leads and other finance stakeholders want to hear.

      Additional features or proper scaling? Yeah, nice we put that on the list for MVP+, for sure! When will that come? Nobody knows and we have no development time to work on it because now with the release the focus was shifted to the next project, but it is on the list and we will come back to it.

      I have heard that so often in so many projects I was part of, as a grunt with no power, and for nearly all of them I still wait for the MVP+ time to ever happen.

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      5 months ago

      They even messed up the emulation on their PS Classic, despite being based on a simpler console and having full control of the hardware and software.

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      5 months ago

      I stopped blaming greed because it holds no one responsible and is like calling a lion a murderer, or a tapeworm a parasite. The product is bad because everyone who works at Sony is incompetent and dumb.

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        5 months ago

        I would not say everyone but everyone in power is incompetent and dumb.

        The normal employee who just hast to do as told can only do as told and if that means that all the good features and functionalities are out of scope then that it is. It has nothing to do with the competence or intelligence of the employee

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      5 months ago

      It looks like their complaints are primarily about how they handle processing the output (scaling and filters). That’s not anything having internal documents helps with.