The PlayStation 5 stays a robust and succesful console nearly 4 years on because it launched in 2020. Sony’s current-gen console has offered almost 60 million models and has remained far forward of its Microsoft competitor, the Xbox Sequence S/X consoles. The PS5 boasts of a powerful library of video games, however in terms of providing backwards compatibility, the console trails Xbox. Sony, nonetheless, appears to be aiming to shut the hole, with a recent hearsay claiming that the PlayStation father or mother continues to be engaged on backwards compatibility for PS3 video games on PS5.
PS3 backwards compatibility on PS5
The PS5 has no bother operating PS4 titles, along with video games obtainable natively on the current-gen console. A wealthy PS4 library of video games, lots of which have obtained updates to carry out higher on the PS5, has helped bolster {the catalogue} of titles obtainable on Sony’s console.
The PS5, nonetheless, nonetheless would not help PS3 video games. Its lack full backwards compatibility stands proud, particularly because the Xbox Sequence S/X can run appropriate Xbox 360 and unique Xbox video games with none points. Sony has lengthy been rumoured to be engaged on PS3 emulation that may permit customers to play video games from the PS3 period on fashionable consoles. These rumours gathered steam Monday when journalist and trade insider Jeff Grubb claimed that Sony was certainly engaged on PS3 emulation for “fairly a while.”
Grubb, commenting on the hearsay on the Sport Mess Mornings podcast for Large Bomb, mentioned {that a} PS3 emulator that may run PS3 period video games natively on the PS5 has been within the works for lengthy. “It is one thing that I’ve heard. It has been within the works for fairly a while. I believed it was going to get revealed earlier this yr when if first heard about it. That clearly did not occur,” Grubb mentioned on the podcast.
“However that does not imply it’s going to by no means occur. Perhaps it does,” he added. The journalist additionally mentioned the doable methods traditional PS3 video games might be performed natively on PS5. “The best means, actually, is a backwards compatibility layer on the PS5, made by Sony in order that it might simply work on the PS5 if you happen to put a (PS3) disc in, or perhaps you possibly can purchase it once more or one thing like that… we’ll see.”
PS Plus Classics Catalog
Sony has not revealed any plans for an official PS3 emulation software on the PS5. The present-gen console, nonetheless, helps choose PS3 video games by means of the Classics Catalog. PS5 customers must subscribe to PS Plus Deluxe/Premium membership to entry the Classics Catalog. It is also value noting that the PS3 period video games on {the catalogue} aren’t playable natively on the PS5 however are slightly streamed over an Web connection.