PS5 Pro revealed. November 7th 2024. $699

[BraLoD]

SvennoJ said:

BraLoD said:

They just need to sell a modular disc player like they are already doing, but that can read cds and dvds too, let emulation take care of the rest.

Emulation isn't perfect. The people willing to pay lots of money for something like this would want authenticity with modern convenience. Not emulation.

At least that sums up me.

But yes, an external disc player that plays all formats would be useful.

PS1 BC on PS3 was via emulation, only for the PS2 BC they still used the chip itself in very early models.

Emulation was not a problem, you even talked about PS3 being combined on PS5 to achieve all gens, so PS1 would be emulation in that scenario.

And software emulation would not demand people to pay lots of money, they just need the disc drive able to read it, would cost about the same as the ongoing disc drive the PS5 already has for sale.

The other alternative would be a FPGA approach, they won't use old parts not being built up anymore because they can't, and makes no sense either, but replicate the original hardware with new parts, and yeah, that would definitely get quite costly... and still not be proper BC, even as it could be quite a bit better than software emulation.

I still have all my Playstations, so I'm also not too keen on emulation and preffer the original hardware, but it's either the original hardware you already have or emulation, be it software or hardware, the quality can vary a lot but software emulation can also be extremely good too... not that PS classic mini fiasco, tho.