The PlayStation 5 was revealed, however Sony probably has some more secret functions for the next generation console to announce. One of these PS5 functions could be a unique use of cloud software like one newly emerged patent shows. In the patent, Sony is considering access to games from the PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 through cloud technology. It would be an option for that PS5, cross-gene Backward compatibility to offer.
What the patent specifically says: It shows pictures of one PS1, PS2 and PS3 and a dotted box that represents a possible game console. A list of games is assigned to each of these pictures. These games are then displayed stored in a cloud gaming library associated with their respective consoles. From here, each of the consoles can be emulated using a virtual machine that is the original one PlayStation console hardware mimicking. So an emulator. Easily explained.
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PS5: Can the Sony console play PSX, PS2 and PS3 games?
To be clear, the patent appears to be the Backward compatibility not to be specifically mentioned in the sense that PlayStation players could revisit their existing collection of old games. It is only mentioned how these games are played. How the games are purchased is unclear. The patent can be found on Twitter.
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-A large number of game titles across PS1/PS2/PS3 and various generations of game consoles can be stored and used via the cloud gaming library.
-These games can be run on a virtual machine that mimics the operating system associated with each game console. pic.twitter.com/TsWV859OLd
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The patent mentions that PS5 Not. But why else would Sony do the work? This is a platform independent Patentit Sony allows you to use the idea at your own discretion. That could mean that it is a PS5 function or a PlayStation Now feature. You can’t decipher that exactly.
Regardless of that Sony clearly that the demand for access to games from epochs PS1, PS2 and PS3 on the latest PlayStation hardware. A cloud version of the Backward compatibility definitely seems the easiest implementation, though this is no real backward compatibility would. Collectors have dozens of discs that they would like to play again without having to buy the digital versions of each game again. However, this may not be possible, and each option is better than none.
Hopefully it will Sony more about his plans for the next few months Backward compatibility of PS5 or PS Now messages.
The PlayStation 5 starts this Christmas. Games currently released for the PS4 must, according to Sony, be “upwards compatible” with the upcoming Sony console.
Mark Cerny has the “technical function” of PS5, PSX-, PS2- oder PS3-Disks to play, already excluded. Perhaps this patent would be just the thing. A compromise that works.
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