PS3 emulation coming to ps5 natively?... kinda late but ok

The thing with PS is because their comsole architecture is so different they never fully plan out backwards compatibility unfortunately. Better late than never at least

Don’t forget “select titles” 😂

I hope this is true.

There's a good reason why they have never made an official PS3 "emulator" for current gen until now, as PS3 had an extremely odd custom cpu architecture, and even to this day emulating PS3 on PC needs a lot of hardware overhead to run decently, it's not as simple as "oh it's Sony, they should be able to just flawlessly emulate PS3 on PS5" as PS5 is still at best comparable to a midrange pc, so if they're actually bringing out emulation for current gen, it's very likely they've been working on this since the release of PS5, while on the other hand, Microsoft had spent tons of resources and years into making compatibility packs for OG Xbox and 360 games for the Xbox one. It's not as simple as you think. it's easy to criticise when you don't know how emulation works.

Native backwards compatibility isn't possible on the PS5, it doesn't have the PS3's Cell CPU, PS2's Emotion Engine and the PS1's LSI R3000. It will likely just be emulation and ports. Most likely Sony will just port PS Now games over to the store, develop their in-house emulator a bit more and call it a day. The best option today is PC and Mobile. Just run emulators on them, Anbernic has turned this into a business. Native Backwards Compatibility would be a dream true, but unlikely to see happen.

Sony are going to lock this native PS3 back compat behind that top tier plat psplus subs, mark my words.

Yeah, I agree, it is a little too late. They should have done this years ago.

The og souls game was Blade of darkness.

if sony made a fully backwards compatible console that had every home console (and maybe a digital store for the handheld titles) it would 100% be the best of the playstations it sucks not being able to play multiple generations on 1 system without some form of homebrew, modding or emulating

You got 4k reward points i have 35k get on my lvl no im joking i would have bought a ps5 to if they had alot of good backwards compatible games

@Grey Guardian 3:36 damn 5th grade when it came out for you is will goddamn

Now to see if it will work with discs

I’ll believe it when I see it. And you know they’re gonna lock it behind PSN & be a bare minimum emulator if it’s real