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by khalilravanna 732 days ago
My biggest lament with the PS3 is the forward incompatibility making many great games locked to the platform (MGS4, Demon’s Souls, etc.). Meanwhile in Xbox land there are *633* 360 games you can play on any new Xbox by just slipping the disc in. Now some of this is no doubt due to differing approaches to business by the corporate masters but from what I’ve read a lot of it is the unique and befuddling architecture of the PS3.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backward-compatible_...
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copx 732 days ago
Despite its exotic architecture the PS3 can be emulated well on "normal" machines, though.

I was amazed that I am actually able to play PS3 games on my (older, not at all top of the line) laptop thanks to the brilliant RPCS3 emulator.

A PS5 is way more powerful than my laptop, so in theory SONY could just make all those PS3 games available through emulation.

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failuser 732 days ago
It took a decade and it’s still not 100% accurate. By now PS5 is powerful enough, but Sony would rather sell you a remaster or remake.
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jimbobthrowawy 732 days ago
I think they'd rather you play the game on their streaming service that runs the game from a ps3-alike sitting in a rack.
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hinkley 731 days ago
The PlayStation 3 is the primary reason I maintained ownership of discrete dvd/Blu-ray players and never got into the PlayStation ecosystem. There were a couple PS3 games I was interested in and if they had run on the PS4 I would have owned a 4 and thus likely a 5
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throwaway48476 732 days ago
Xbox canceled development on their emulator though.
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