4000+ games backwards compatible Day 1. PSN library carries over to PS5

[DonFerrari]

SvennoJ said:

KingJames said:

Sony tried to make an ultimate BC console with the PS3. It was too costly so they kept in the PS1 compatibility to ensure fans had some form of BC. If PS5 had PS1 compatibility, that would be confusing and honestly unnecessary. What is there not to understand btw? PlayStation and Nintendo software legacy is MILES ahead of Xbox. If they were to make let's say a PS1-4 backwards compatible and N64-WiiU backwards compatible console, they would have every right to sell those super consoles for $1000+ easy.

It was more like the console was too costly and to save a few bucks a feature that was hardly used was easily sacrificed to save a couple bucks. Same with Linux dual boot, not worth supporting since it was a loss leading feature. People buying it for Linux only, don't buy games. Since the console was sold at a loss, not a good business strategy. The whole ps3 hack was a good excuse to cover for the removal of Linux.

PS3 emulation might be possible, but it's another cost vs benefit scenario. It will take a lot of man hours to produce a stable enough emulator and many more man hours to test games and make sure saves transfer over. Nvm a lot have already been 'retired' servers switched off. So the choice is, spend a lot of money that won't really bring in more customers, definitely not enough to cover the effort. Or, remaster/remake some of the best ones and resell them like Sony has been doing.

I wonder, would there be a market for an PS complete edition. A bigger box with ps3 and ps2 hardware added inside (ps2 already played ps1?) for full BC. No emulation, simply using the original hardware, with the benefit of the ps5 OS on top and installing/loading from SSD. As well as all the legacy outputs and HDMI output with a good upscaler. I guess the market would be too small for designing such a $1000 box.

I think Sony could make a buck from a PS full version capable of playing all 5 gen titles, just not sure how much they would need to mod the APU of PS5 to match that. Perhaps use the regular APU plus a simplified Cell processor on it with the PS2 and PS1 SW emulated that they had available on PS3.