PlayStation 5 Has All It Takes To Run PlayStation 3 Games Natively Well, But Sony Does Not Seem To Care
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Key Points:
- A user has successfully run Linux on PlayStation 5 using older system software, enabling the console to run PlayStation 3 games natively through emulation.
- The PS5 demonstrated smooth gameplay of the PS3 title Motorstorm Pacific Rift via the RPCS3 emulator, showcasing the system's powerful Zen 2 8-core CPU and RDNA 2 GPU capabilities.
- This development highlights Sony's lack of effort to provide native backward compatibility for PS3 games, which currently can only be accessed through cloud gaming with mixed results.
- Previous tests using hardware similar to the PS5 confirmed the system's ability to run PS3 emulated games at high resolutions, making Sony's inaction on native emulation more perplexing.
- With the impending launch of PlayStation 6, it is unlikely that native PS3 game support will be added to the PS5, but the next-generation console may offer broader native backward compatibility across all PlayStation titles.
