Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. To get the best performance outcome for games, developers had to relearn development techniques and incorporate new systems into their games. In addition to this, the PS3 also included an Reality Synthesiser (RSX) chip, a special GPU based on the Nvidia 7800. These SPEs are a unique system difficult to take advantage of, with developers later describing the console as a nightmare to work with. “The cell processor combined a general purpose power PC core (or PPE) which featured a 3.2 GHz dual-core CPU as well as eight additional co-processors known as synergistic processing elements (or SPEs) which were also clocked at 3.2 GHz.” In a new video posted to YouTube, Modern Vintage Gamer explains the PlayStation 3 rocked a unique and hard-to-replicate cell processor system: If homebrew developers can create an emulation architecture without source code, surely Sony can do the same.īut it’s more complicated than you’d think. This is despite Windows PCs being able to emulate the console via programs like the RPCS3 emulator. The blanket response is the PS5 just ‘ isn’t compatible‘ with PlayStation 3 games.

That being the case, the PS5 is far more capable with its 8-core 16-thread Zen 2 architecture and 10 teraflop GPU - so why is backwards compatibility still an issue? As Modern Vintage Gamer explains, the PS4 featured an underpowered Jaguar CPU incapable of properly emulating PS3 games. The underlying architecture of the PS3 is cited as the major reason Sony hasn’t pursue backwards compatibility in the PS4 and PS5. But the challenges of porting PS3 games onto the PS5 are holding these games back. inFAMOUS, Metal Gear Solid 4, Heavenly Sword and Resistance spring to mind, but there’s plenty deserving of an appearance on next gen consoles. The fact is the PS3 has an impressive back catalogue filled with games yet to be remastered.

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