
Whatcookie broke this all down for Digital Trends in greater detail. This approach ultimately makes PS3 games harder to emulate. In short, PS3's CELL microprocessor had some very unique capabilities, which meant that developers over-relied on the CPU at the time. Compared to that, the PS3 has a different CPU that has more in common with the PS2 than Sony's modern systems.

The system architectures of the PS4 and PS5 are so similar that isn't much of a problem to run PS4 titles on Sony's latest system, with a couple of exceptions. He broke down what makes PS3 emulation particularly frustrating and sheds some light on why Sony is content with streaming PS3 games from the cloud instead. Whatcookie, who chose not to share his name, is also known for creating a 60 frames per second patch for the PS3 version of Demon's Souls. To learn why PS3 games are so hard to bring to modern consoles, I spoke to Whatcookie, a contributor for the popular PS3 emulator RPCS3. This stands out when Xbox and Nintendo are doing a relatively good job at natively emulating or remastering games from older systems for modern platforms. Sony is content to continue PlayStation Now's approach to PS3 gaming with PlayStation Plus Premium. We're over 15 years removed from the PS3's launch, and there's still no good way to play many classic PS3 titles like Infamous or Metal Gear Solid 4 on modern platforms. Unfortunately, it comes with a caveat: All PS3 games must be streamed from the cloud and can't be played natively on the console. PlayStation Plus Premium will give players access to a library of classic PlayStation, PS2, and PS3 titles starting this June, which is exciting as the PS5 only is backward compatible with the PS4 currently. PlayStation games we want to see added to PS Plus New PS Plus game lineup includes PS5 hits and ’90s classics PlayStation Plus’ PS1 games run at 60Hz in North America The PlayStation Backbone is a great mobile gaming controller, but a bad PS5 companion PS Plus adds two PS5 exclusives in April, but loses Spider-Man next month If any of those listed games excite you, they will be available with PS Plus Extra and Premium starting on May 16.


On the classic games front, it’s a PSP-dominated batch, with Logan’s Shadow completing the Syphon Filter series’ presence within the PlayStation Classics collection.Ī lot of good games, including Marvel’s Spider-Man, are leaving PlayStation Plus on May 15, so it’s good to know that a lot of other interesting games will be hitting the service on the same day.
