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Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by Rebelgecko »

mnd999 wrote: post #7
kuu wrote: post #5

The forced obsolescence of consoles is amazing. Now the new generation is advertising as one of their major achievements the retro-compatibility with the previous generation games, but what about PS3 or 360 games? Don't worry, you will have the option to pay again for the same game, maybe with new textures (but maybe not). At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

The PS3 has an incredibly powerful CPU that is a a real pain to emulate. Modernretrogamer did quite an interesting Youtube piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLebZyha74o

It's surprising to me that PS3 emulation (RPCS3) is so much further along than Xbox360 emulation (Xenia). Is it just a matter of one platform getting more attention?

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by jokowueu »

mnd999 wrote: post #7
kuu wrote: post #5

The forced obsolescence of consoles is amazing. Now the new generation is advertising as one of their major achievements the retro-compatibility with the previous generation games, but what about PS3 or 360 games? Don't worry, you will have the option to pay again for the same game, maybe with new textures (but maybe not). At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

The PS3 has an incredibly powerful CPU that is a a real pain to emulate. Modernretrogamer did quite an interesting Youtube piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLebZyha74o

I keep reading that it's difficult to emulate but the current Rpcs3 is doing great work at such a high pace

https://youtu.be/MhLteF_xVi0

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by mnd999 »

rusk wrote: post #18
NullPrefix wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't make them like this anymore

Every Game Dev: Thank God

I know it was a pain to code for initially but once the tooling got better was it really that bad? The Cell still seems like an awesome piece of kit.

Had the PS4 been a PS3 with a new GPU and a clocked up Cell with an extra PPE would that have been a bad thing?

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by mulmen »

keyle wrote: post #17

Sony has control over their own domain? Shocking.

This is underrated. After a 23 day outage I will never, ever, under any circumstances choose a Sony product. They're irredeemable. It astonishes me they were able to continue selling consoles. In the same way that I will never forgive Microsoft for their hostility I will also never forgive Sony for their utter incompetence.

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by SpaceManNabs »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #21
mnd999 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The PS3 has an incredibly powerful CPU that is a a real pain to emulate. Modernretrogamer did quite an interesting Youtube piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLebZyha74o

It's surprising to me that PS3 emulation (RPCS3) is so much further along than Xbox360 emulation (Xenia). Is it just a matter of one platform getting more attention?

Complete guess: I think part of the issue is that a lot of Xbox games that aren't exclusive to Sony or Switch are also on Windows. So maybe there is a slightly smaller incentive?

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by blackoil »

jmiskovic wrote: post #3

Executives in big company cutting costs for whatever is not making immediate profit. One of those moments when you come to understand how out of touch they are with their audience. Gamers are nostalgic breed and PS1/2/3 made many childhood memories. Nintendo knows to capitalize on their history far better than Sony or Microsoft.

Or they can go 'Disney' and really cash on nostalgia. You need not need keep everything alive, just smartly use Vault and Remakes.

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Post by verroq »

thomasedwards wrote: post #13
lanevorockz wrote: post #6

On the age of Cancel Culture, History is Offensive.

Erm, I think it’s the exact opposite? People want you to learn about history so we don’t make the same mistakes

I think what he meant was that people will dig thru your history to find stuff that (they find) is no longer socially acceptable and cancel you.

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by rusk »

mnd999 wrote: post #23
rusk wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every Game Dev: Thank God

I know it was a pain to code for initially but once the tooling got better was it really that bad? The Cell still seems like an awesome piece of kit. Had the PS4 been a PS3 with a new GPU and a clocked up Cell with an extra PPE would that have been a bad thing?

I “loved” the idea of the cell when I heard about it, but the development community’s struggle with it should be a salutary lesson to us all!

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by mschuetz »

kuu wrote: post #5

The forced obsolescence of consoles is amazing. Now the new generation is advertising as one of their major achievements the retro-compatibility with the previous generation games, but what about PS3 or 360 games? Don't worry, you will have the option to pay again for the same game, maybe with new textures (but maybe not). At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

It's also why I didn't by consoles anymore since the PS2. The PS2 was awesome and the backwards compatibility to PS1 games got me hooked. However, I have no desire to buy 3 new consoles every 6-7 years that don't support my previous collection of old games. If the PS5 had backwards compatibility all the way to the PS1, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but since it doesn't, I won't buy it.
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