Nobody wants to (or has the space to) keep every console they have ever owned just so they can play a favourite game or two. Normally the defence for playing emulated games is that they’re no longer available if Sony can stream old games for a fee, then that defence is gone.īut for others, regardless of this, it will be a godsend.
Sony will one day be launching a service that streams emulated PS1, PS2 and PS3 games onto more modern devices, and that’s a service that it wants to make money on. Right now most people associate emulation with retro systems, with working emulators topping out at the PS2 and GameCube generation, but as PC hardware advances folks are trying hard to add the Xbox 360 and PS3 to that roster. Yes, the practice is a haven for people playing games “illegally”, but I’m nevertheless fascinated by the field, both for the improvements it can make to a game’s graphics and the sheer amount of work that goes into emulating an entire video game console’s workings within the confines of a completely different system.
