Sony implemented backward compatibility on the PlayStation 5 for both physical and digital PlayStation 4 games. It is evident that the console can play games from older generations of consoles all this time. This raises an interesting question: why has Sony been holding out on its fans?
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TerryLaze Just because the emulator is ported to run natively doesn't mean that it stops to be emulation and is somehow now native support. It's not native disk support, it's still disk/game support through emulation. Reply
gearhound Why would anyone throw their PS2 disks away? So dumb. Play PS1 and PS2 games on your fat PS3. Reply
RealSibuscus Sony's about to learn the biggest "If you cant beat em, join em" lesson in their entire history of existance Reply
Yeetplaceisee Article has incorrect information. The consoles have CD laser hardware. It's just software disabled. You can check the FCC information on the console, it explicitly lists all CD/DVD/Blu-ray lasers in the hardware. It seems Sony disabled CD in software because they were too cheap to pay the CD licence fee? maybe? Unknown it's never been confirmed why Reply
LordVile Yeetplaceisee said: Article has incorrect information. The consoles have CD laser hardware. It's just software disabled. You can check the FCC information on the console, it explicitly lists all CD/DVD/Blu-ray lasers in the hardware. It seems Sony disabled CD in software because they were too cheap to pay the CD licence fee? maybe? Unknown it's never been confirmed why 1. Sony jointly own the CD format with Phillips 2. You don’t need a licence fee to make a CD reader Reply
Yeetplaceisee LordVile said: 1. Sony jointly own the CD format with Phillips 2. You don’t need a licence fee to make a CD reader I was trying to give a polite possible answer for why Sony didn't enable the CD laser functionality, but maybe it's just that Sony are being jerks. Reply
LordVile Yeetplaceisee said: I was trying to give a polite possible answer for why Sony didn't enable the CD laser functionality, but maybe it's just that Sony are being jerks. It’s Sony, there’s only ever one option. They took a loss on the PS3 to beat out HD DVD Reply
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