PS3 emulation on PlayStation 5 nearing reality as Sony partner discusses prototype functionality

Is PS3 emulation on PS5 finally happening? No, but the team behind Sony's backward compatibility releases is looking towards it.

[anast]

It will be funny when like 5 people actually play these games.

[PhoenixRising37]

MGS4 will be the big request, but I'm blown away they didn't jump on a remaster for it.

[hombreacabado]

the next mgs collection by konami is allegedly going to have a remaster version of it along with metal gear rising or at the very least peacewalker.

[zaanan]

Resistance FOM with trophies, lets GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[mandf]

I stream comet crash and pixeljunk monsters almost everyday

[anast]

Good for streamers, I suppose. People watching doesn't imply people playing.

[StarcrossedBits]

Anast, you know you can stream games to play right? He's not talking about watching youtube vids of those games. :eyeroll:

[anast]

@starcrossbits

You do know there are more people that game than streamers right?

The eye roll must me something you need to admit.

[Knushwood Butt]

I played the entire Resistance 3 campaign via streaming a few weeks ago. Was a pretty good experience.
I would do the same for 1 and 2 but for some reason they are not available to stream in Japan. Why??

[zaanan]

@Knushwood, 1&2 not avail in states either.

[anast]

@Knush

Yes, you did, but we can hardly apply that to the whole.

Thank you for using "via", it makes it less ambiguous.

[Flewid638]

My RPCS3 emulator gets plenty of burn. Esp now that netplay is mostly fully functional.

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

People typically dont play things locked to ps3 because they dont want to deal with the clutter of multiple devices, and thats IF they’re lucky enough to have a working ps3 to begin with. To have all your games available on ps5 would be a gigantic plus. Think about all the people who still play ps4 games without even realizing it on their ps5s. I’m sure backwards compatibility with 360 games is relatively popular on Xbox now.

Speaking from personal experience, I can genuinely say that I spent more time last year playing my ps3 than I did ps5. There’s just a magic in those games that made them so worthwhile to go back and platinum.

[anast]

I see some people playing it, but I wouldn't be surprised if the game hours on these games are well below current games and then forgotten. It will go like this: first, the content creators will farm this stuff for content. Next, there will be a bump in people playing these old games. Then the initial excitement will die down and only the people that truly love playing old games will be left.

Sony will at least be able to add more value to their premium tier.

[MetroidFREAK21]

I'd gladly love to play my PS3 games on PS5

[Skate-AK]

Jim Ryan, is that you?

[jeromeface]

bro, your downvotes are on FIRE 10:1... great ratio.

[anast]

It's my new personal record. I could never break the mid thirties, but I finally got one. Thanks for keeping track. I wouldn't have been able to do this without my fans. I would also like to thank God, without him I wouldn't have been able to accomplish all that I have.

[babadivad]

Greed is the only reason this isn't already a thing.

[rippermcrip]

How exactly is it greed for them to not do this? If they made this work and then sold all PS3 games on the store, they'd make money.

[LoveSpuds]

So you are just going to ignore what is commonly accepted as fact, that the architecture of PS3 makes reliable back compatibility extremely difficult?

[spoonard]

Extremely difficult for who exactly? A lone unsupported YouTuber did it with non-standard hardware. A team of supported developers from a 3rd part Sony developer has it working now, and a team of Sony engineers could likely have it up and running in no time flat. I don't know why people keep using the phrasing "extremely difficult". It was at one time, but hardware and software advances combined with experienced developers means it's just a matter of Sony OK'ing it and it would be a thing by next week.

[jarek98]

It was very difficult on PS4, I'm quite sure that PS5 has enough power to handle it already. If not for all games, then at least for majority of them.

[LoveSpuds]

It has little to do with power and everything to do with complex architecture. It is also one thing for a YouTuber to release a few vids of select games running, it is completely another for a company to release a commercial product which must be completely reliable.

[DivineHand125]

"It has little to do with power and everything to do with complex architecture. It is also one thing for a YouTuber to release a few vids of select games running, it is completely another for a company to release a commercial product which must be completely reliable."

This is an interesting spin, but Sony has already proven that this reason is not true. If this were the case, then the PS2 emulation on PS5 wouldn't have had so many issues at launch and the full or the majority of the PS1/2 library would be available for you to play on the PS5.

They don't need to make it so all PS3 games are playable on the PS5, but it would go a long way for them to make the PS3 exclusive titles playable natively with increased resolutions and framerates natively on PS5 shortly after launch when we didn't have much to play.

[phatak]

honestly every console should have full backwards compatibility, im a full time pc gamer now but if sony brings full compatibility it would be a huge selling point and I would use the ps5 much more often, just the abilitity to play random ps1,ps2,ps3 games would be huge, most exclusives are on PC anyways now so this would be an ever greater selling compared to exclusives, ps3 fat was such a good console with full compatibility of ps1 and ps2 games, hence the high launch price, so since the ps5 pro already is priced so high they could even do atleast a pro model that has backwards compatibility with previous consoles.

[gold_drake]

yea i think sony went the wrong way with the ps3, it recovered throughout its cycle but damn.

such a shame. even with the 60 vs 30? gig differences.
i was lucky enough to had a backwards compatible one bk in the day

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I wish I had grabbed the fat PS3, I still have a decent collection of PS1/PS2 games, my PS1 is dead, and one of my PS2s are dead, hopefully the other PS2 doesn't breakdown, otherwise I might have to learn how to fix PS2s.

[Knushwood Butt]

If Switch had backwards compatibility it would lose half of its library!

[Demetrius]

Imagine how good all 3 infamous games would look if they got proper remaster treatment for ps5

[Guitardr85]

I just want all of my PS3 PSN store purchases restored on the current PSN lol

[SegaSaturn669]

meanwhile, on steamdeck:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[RaiderNation]

But what will that mean for us? Will we get to pop a PS3 disk into the PS5 and play it, or will we have to purchase them all over again digitally? Or would they be kept behind a PS Plus paywall like they are right now?

[RedDevils]

It will be the same as the PS1 and PS2.

[Knightofelemia]

I would love to put a PS3 disc into the PS5 and play Resistance but knowing Sony they would probably lock the emulation behind a pay wall.

[TOTSUKO]

Would be awesome if they enabled online functionality to the classics as well. I miss fat princess and resistance mp so bad lol

[SonyStyled]

You can play R1 multiplayer now, yesterday, today, tomorrow. I do every now and then but I’m not as skilled as I was 2007

[gold_drake]

im all for it, but that should have already happened.
same with selling ps1 and 2 games.

[FlintGREY]

I'm confused....I've seen PS3 games on PS+ Premium.

[Lexreborn2]

Sometimes it feels like people don’t truly understand what this undertaking requires. They think “hey this team made a pc emulator for ps3 games why can’t Sony?”

Rpcs3 is a cool emulator, but it tells you everything you need to know. There are still tons of games on it that can’t properly run ps3 games. And even when you can brute force a couple games things like Red dead Redemption played awful on the emulator.

But another glaring problem is, so many of the really must play ps3 games already have a remaster/port or superior version available on PC and recent consoles.

MS also showed us the limitations of BC with its titles because they also had to work WITH the companies to make an agreement for the BC which is probably EXACTLY why they stopped the program at what was it? 400 games bc from Xbox-xbox 360? That’s a very small list in grand perspective.

I personally would prefer re-releases that the devs put out that are built for current standards and move forward. If they do something like look at your account details and see you bought the ps3 build offer a store “upgrade” or I would just wait for the inevitable sale that ps store ALWAYS has.

But hey this is only a conversation that’s been happening since what 2013?

[SonyStyled]

^this.

There is still some remasters missing though (KZ, Resistance, LBP, Motorstorm, Infamous) plus many smaller titles and collections/remasters from ps1-2 on PS3.

I’m not a tech genius by any means, but a PS5 won’t be able to read a CD/DVD disk (ps1-2 format) with a blu-ray disk reader. They are all disks but they’re different formats.