The PS5 could soon welcome a highly requested feature

Game news The PS5 could soon welcome a highly requested feature

Published on 01/13/2022 at 20:59

It’s been a little over a year since Sony’s latest addition, the PS5, found a place in our living rooms. At least for those lucky enough to get one! This marks Sony’s 27th birthday in the console market, which implies a titanic collection of games that unfortunately bear the brunt of a lack of backwards compatibility. However, all hopes would not be lost!

When starting the PlayStation 5, many gamers could blame Sony for the lack of investment in backwards compatibility. Despite the console’s great performance and technological advances, the pill goes badly for gamers who are only waiting for one thing: to be able to launch the latest exclusives from the Japanese company with their brand new machine, but also the games that marked their memories in the PlayStation ecosystem.

But due to abuse from fans of the Sony brand, which is currently dealing with component shortages and supply chain challenges and made the decision revise your ambitions As for the production of PS4, would have ended up hearing the allegations and doing some research to resolve this issue. At least that’s what a patent spotted recently on Twitter suggests, as the DualShockers website points out.

PS1, PS2 and PS3 games finally backward compatible on PS5?

One of the biggest mistakes of PlayStation 5 would be considered old history if we are to believe the patent that has been circulating on Twitter lately. While Microsoft and the Xbox Series X|S have dominated this aspect for a number of years, the Japanese company seems to have finally found the solution to this stubborn backwards compatibility issue on its machines.

Basically, it can be very difficult to get games to run on next-gen consoles that weren’t designed for this type of system. That is precisely why the PS5

cannot run PS1, PS2 and PS3 games. However, the teams of Mark Cerny, the goldsmith behind the machine’s development, may not have found a hardware solution, but rather a software solution to counteract this problem!

So the patent Backward compatibility by using spoof clock and fine-grain frequency control ‘ mentioned in the tweet above would finally hint at the arrival of this feature on the PS5! We’ll just have to wait for an official confirmation from Sony, especially as this isn’t the only project the company has tackled to compete with Microsoft: a redesign of PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now would be in the pipes under the name ” Project Spartacus ».