PlayStation Reportedly Working on PS3 Emulation for PS5 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 April 2022 / 5,422 Views
VentureBeat journalist and leaker Jeff Grubb in the latest GamesBeat Decides stream said he has heard Sony is working on PlayStation 3 emulation for the PlayStation 5.
"Since talking about this all week, I’ve looked, I’ve asked… it sounds like Sony might be working on emulation for PS3 on PS5," said Grubb via VideoGamesChronicle.
"It may take some time. I wish they would come out and tell us that. Tell us that you care about this stuff because that is what was missing from the PS Plus announcement… to me, it seemed like they didn’t care about any of it. They just slapped it together, put a new name on it and sold it."
Last month Sony Interactive Entertainment announced it is launching an all-new version of PlayStation Plus in June that will be available in three tiers - Essential, Extra, and Premium. The relaunch of PlayStation Plus will combine the current PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into a singe service.
The Essential tier is the same as the current version of PlayStation Plus, while the Extra tier adds a catalog of up to 400 PS5 and PS4 games and the Premium tier adds PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP games. The PS3 games are only available to play via cloud streaming and will not be available to download.
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Yes, please. Put all the PS games you can on modern PS consoles.
I want this to be true, but doubt it.
Even if it's true it will be locked behind Sony's new PS+ subscription service which I do not want. I want to be able to take my past PS3 purchases and play them on the PS5 without spending anything.
I want people to stop saying the highest PS+ tier has BC. That is not BC. If I cannot take my PS1 and PS2 discs and put them in the PS4/PS5 and it works then it's not BC. If I can't take my PSP downloads and legacy PS1/PS2 downloads from the PSP/PS3 stores and carry them to the PS4/PS5, then once again it isn't BC. What is BC is what Microsoft did with Xbox and Xbox 360 games.
Yep correct
It won't because there is no BC locked on any tier of PS+, there are PS1,2,3,PSP titles to play on the premium tier, not BC.
Correct, and for all those brand new gamers signing up to Premium, or those who never had a PS console before, etc, all those games are new games to them, not BC.
It would also be nice if XB and some people would stop implying they have (full) BC. They don't. XB has partial, modified, BC like compatibility.
BC is putting your disc in and having the game work right away.
With XB you have to put your disc in, authenticate, then download a new version of your discs files, then play.
Not all past XB games are able to do this, so no BC.
No paid internet connection to download? Then no BC.
Emulation or not, I wouldn't consider that native BC.
Why on earth is this guys comment downvoted so much? Can someone please explain cause I don't know what's so wrong about this..
Lez go Sony keep doing good shiet not micro transaction live service bullshit
How many years we will hear this rumor?
It won't end up true native emulated PS3 BC, because then the same has to happen for all BC games.
It'll eventually be announced they've done it, and to be able to make use of it, you'll have to either sign up for Premium so you can download them, or you can buy them from the store and download them.
Well it could just be making it available without the need of streaming.
Yup. That's my bet.
Only way I see PS offering full free emulated BC is if their new Plus service is still seen as quite inferior to Game Pass as time passes. Then PS could simply avoid points like day 1 by saying, well XB BC is weak and offers such a small catalogue.
PS should seriously consider offering a BC console model at launch. Make PS6 around the same size as PS5, but have a PS3 (cell) inside for the top full BC model.
$400 - PS6DE
$500 - PS6
$???? - PS6BC
BC model only exists until the Slim arrives then get's discontinued. Same idea as PS3 but with two more affordable models underneath without BC this time.
I would really welcome this. I had big hopes Spartacus would include this with new plans already.
Certainly would be welcome
I don't really see why Sony would do this. I think it's more likely that we see a PS5 "slim" that drops compatibility with PS4. Sony will want to concentrate on selling new games, and leave the second-hand stuff to charity shops. You can pick up old games for a couple of bucks each at the moment... it isn't going to make Sony cash...
I really hope so.
A little bit too late Sony.
Personally, I consider fairly weak backwards compatibility Sony's biggest weakness. It's also the main thing that has alianated me from console gaming in the last decade or so. I know I want to play even old games occasionally, but what choice do I have when there's no official support? Having more than two consoles in a living room is simply not practical, and neither is switching consoles just to play one game and then switch back, only to later repeat the same process.
For this reason, I consider this very exciting news. It's made even greater by the fact that PS3 emulation is still not exactly that great, so if you want to play PS3 exclusives, you still pretty much need a PS3. What's still missing is PS1 and PS2 emulation, which is what really bothers me because PS3 kind of bad both, so clearly the software for it exists. Anyway, I really hope this is true.
Hopefully the Playstation 4 receives PS3 emulation as well, even though people still spruik the "power of the cell", Jaguar was still faster... Especially in integer.
Plus Sony has an intimate understanding of Cell in order to ensure low overheads... Which is something that emulator developers on PC wish they had.
Either way, this is a great thing for Playstation gamers and the gaming community as a whole, it ensures preservation of our games and lets us bring our game libraries forwards.
its nearing the end of its life if this is true then it will be a PS5 thing
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