Also they still can’t get PS3 emulation on the PS5.” Renowned FromSoftware super-fan Lance McDonald – who famously made a 60 frames-per-second patch for Bloodborne – added: “I can’t get over Sony announcing that they have a PS1 and PS2 emulator up and running on PS4 and PS5 hardware but they’re locking both behind a subscription fee and won’t let you play discs you already own. Sony has never been interested in investing the millions to make it happen, however.” In a follow-up video, he expanded on this, explaining that while he believes PS3 emulation could be achieved, it would be a multi-year project that would cost many millions and could face multiple licensing roadblocks along the way. He explained: “Emulation of PS3 is absolutely possible on PS5 hardware. One tweet that went viral overnight, posted by Dimitris Giannakis – also known as Modern Vintage Gamer – said that emulation is “absolutely possible”. While its performance isn’t perfect, the argument is that this is a hobbyist product produced by amateurs who will never have he same understanding of the PS3 architecture like Sony does, with its original design documentation and all. Our understanding has always been that the PS3 is simply too complicated to emulate, although that argument has been somewhat debunked by the RPCS3 program, which runs some PS3 games perfectly well on PC. The problem is that PS Plus Premium players will have to use cloud streaming to play classic PS3 games, a decision that – without context – has such terrible optics, even Sony would agree.
While it was rumoured, we were sceptical PS1 games would make the final cut, and are thrilled to see PS2 and PSP included, too. Based on what we know so far – which, admittedly, isn’t much – we think the overhaul is welcome and necessary, and we’ve been refreshingly surprised by some of the features. Ever the contrarians, we’re cautiously optimistic about Sony’s revamped PS Plus subscription.
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