AlfredoTurkey said:
Michelasso said:
That's a million dollar question. The PSOne and PSP emulators run with great results even on my midrange Android phone (Snapdragon 400, nothing exceptional). I doubt it would be technically difficult for Sony to make a working PS2 emulator, with enhanced resolution. I suspect some internal commercial issues. They want to push the PS4 games and they may be thinking about remastering some classics. I don't know.
Or it has to do with testing. If they bring the emulators they want to bring (and sell) the Classics as well. And they all need to be tested, with the emulator configuration changing accordingly. For example my UK copy of FF VII runs on my PS3, but the cutscense are glitchy. And FF VIII (UK) doesn't start at all. While the ones on the PSN should be just fine. Well FF VIII is since I just bought it from the US sales. They can't sell anything glitching in the PS Store.
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I am 100% certain that it's to push PS Now. I don't see any logistical reasons otherwise. It's clearly, just as with the later half of the PS3 days, a business move.
If Sony didn't release a PS1 and PS2 emulator when they were losing last generation, why in the hell would they release one now when they're winning? There's absolutely no insentive.
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That could be, but not even PS Now runs the PS Classics. Or does it, the last time I checked it didn't. Apart that it would be an huge waste of computing resources to run them in a emulator which runs in a PS3 virtual machine. Sony would need to make virtual machines for the PSOne and PS2, indipendent from the PS3 VMs.
Still what Sony can do is to make the emulators as part of the PS4 System SW and sell the games only digitally, like it is now on PS3. But at this point they should be cross-buy between platforms, like they are already with the PSP/PS Vita. Even if they run at an higher resolution. The games are the same, only the emulation headers would change.
