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This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on December 2nd, 2020 in the Gaming category.
Nothing that a well equipped PC can't do.
That's not the point though, is it? It must be embarrassing for Sony that the lesser of Microsoft's two new consoles has better backwards compatibility with Sony's back catalogue than Sony's new console does...
I doubt they'll worry too much, it's a workaround way of doing it and it's not officially supported so most players won't even consider doing it or be aware that it's a possibility. It feels like a very expensive way to play some old games that aren't even guaranteed to run correctly.
Don't know bout y'all but I not interested in playing games from the stone age era.
As a Playstation console user for many years I don't mind being able to play games from perhaps one previous generation but pretty much when I'm done with that I'm done with that and prefer to move on to games made for whatever current generation.
I've still got my PS2 and DFP set up, opposite my PS4 rig, and I was playing though some of GT3 the other night.you might as well just dust off your old PS2 and PS3 from the attic and plug them in.
No. Licensing only gets involved if PD wanted to remake GT3 or 4.Isn't it like a licensing problem to emulate all those old games on newer hardware?
It very much is.I know that hardware is not a problem even for a PS3 game to run well on PS5.
Nothing that a well equipped PC can't do.
It very much is.
It's not a simple case of having more powerful hardware. Many PS3 games are specifically designed to have functions shifted to individual components of the Cell processor. Getting them to not work like that literally requires rewriting of huge swathes of game code.
Agree. But isn't that what emulation does for any console? Maybe the owners and creators of the code can have an answer to that. But again, my point is that probably licensing is what stops all the hassle from ever being worth looking into.
Ok you got me there check and mate. Have to confess I'd gotten around to really enjoying Pcars 3. Been playing it almost every day.Considering how you cape for PCARS and very hard at that, I am not surprised in the slightest that this is also a viewpoint you believe in.
In my view the problem with PS1 games are absolutely not a matter of age, but of the awkward "growing pains" that occurred when games shifted from 2D to 3D, through both the fifth and sixth generations of consoles. The fourth generation of consoles is a gold mine of classics that stand the test of time. 2D game design had matured by then.Don't know bout y'all but I not interested in playing games from the stone age era.
Don't know bout y'all but I not interested in playing games from the stone age era.