PS3 Emulation Reportedly in Development for PlayStation 5

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Why on earth would Sony spend its time developing backward compatibility for PS3 titles on PS5 when it can just nickel and dime players through a subscription service, as demonstrated by the new Premium tier of its revamped PlayStation Plus program, which includes the perk of being able to stream PS3 games?

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I don't understand. Oh well I guess if I could load up my old rockband games. If I had those for a previous generation that would make sense.

Someone really needs to come out with a fully licensed rock band/guitar hero game for pc with controllers that feel a bit up market from the I think I'm gonna gonna Crack it by accident ones that came with the games.

Like give me one with cherry mx switches under neath on a metallic core structure with wireless and wired options and the ability to tension and service the whammy bar. And I would be a happy camper at say 200 maybe 250.

Another 50 for the game. And an option to unlock "all" previous tracks for a nominal fee of like 20 bucks and I would be ok. Heck make it a yearly fee of 20 bucks so the artists who write the music get some kick back from it all. I can appreciate that.

Problem is navigating the legal quagmire and the tooling and production of the guitars would be very cost prohibitive I imagine. That and those games have largely left the mind of people especially with covid and all.
 
Back-compat is usually a big deal for people, but I keep and use my systems for life. I still have a working PS3, and PS3 emulation has come a long way on PC, so I don't really need future Sony consoles to be able to run PS3 (or older) games. On the other hand, I did play a lot of PS1 games on PS3 even though I still have a working PS1 (sadly my PS2 no longer reads discs, and my PS3 doesn't run PS2 games), and I use PS1 emulation on PC. I have friends who got a PS5 because they skipped PS4, and PS5 allows them to cover PS4 as well. When my sister and her husband lost my original Xbox for years (finally got it back in recent months), XB1 came in handy for running original Xbox games. I do run DS games on my soft-modded 3DS, but I still have my DS Lite (in which I ran an R4 card). XBSX/XBSS having back-compat for all the previous generations of Xbox is pretty cool though. My issue is that not all my original Xbox games run on the newer Xboxes, and some of my X360 games don't work on XB1 or XBSX/XBSS. Also kinda sh1tty that for some X360 games that do work on newer Xboxes, their DLC does not. I used to run GCN games on Wii but I've gone back to using the GCN itself. Wii U will run Wii games but eh, I already got a soft-modded Wii. Wii U will also run GCN games if you soft-mod it. Anyways back-compat is cool, but it is less useful for lifelong gamers who still have the older systems, and access to console emulation on PC (or even on other systems).
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
A while back I found some replacement aftermarket drives. I never tried one but they are out there. Might be worth a search if you really want to revive it.
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Yeah I think I even have a few saved for future purchase, but honestly I was thinking of just replacing the optical drive altogether with one of those SD card reader thingies. I've seen it done with various systems like the PS2 and Dreamcast (an example: https://hackinformer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/4C3279DF-B748-467E-8FAA-81F88001BF7D.jpeg).

One of my friends did it with his Gamecube:
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I've also seen people replace the optical drives in their classic consoles with SSDs.
 
DrezKill said:
Yeah I think I even have a few saved for future purchase, but honestly I was thinking of just replacing the optical drive altogether with one of those SD card reader thingies. I've seen it done with various systems like the PS2 and Dreamcast (an example: https://hackinformer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/4C3279DF-B748-467E-8FAA-81F88001BF7D.jpeg).

One of my friends did it with his Gamecube:
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I've also seen people replace the optical drives in their classic consoles with SSDs.
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Very cool. Makes sense with all the downloadable ROMs out there and way more convenient and efficient. No emulation and ready to go!
 
Tsing said:
Why on earth would Sony spend its time developing backward compatibility for PS3 titles on PS5 when it can just nickel and dime players through a subscription service
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I bet they're only developing PS3 b/c so they *can* nickel and dime players through a subscription service. I reckon these PS3 titles will be digital only and available through their PS Plus service (ala Nintendo Online) and it won't actually be able to run PS3 discs. Sony's been less bullish than MS when it comes to b/c, and I have a feeling they'd only be developing it if it was to bolster their existing service and not cut into PS Plus Premium (or whatever their higher tier subscription is called).
 
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