Video Game Preservation: PlayStation makes it its business

Game news Video Game Preservation: PlayStation makes it its business

Published on 04/26/2022 at 13:20

PlayStation has reportedly set up a special section dedicated to video game preservation. It was one of his youngest recruits, Garrett Fredley, who announced it yesterday on the social network Twitter.

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A department dedicated to nature conservation?
PlayStation: retro games where and for what?

A department dedicated to nature conservation?

PlayStation recently established a department dedicated to video game preservation. It was about Garrett Fredley, who was recently hired by the editor, who announced it through a tweet talking about his first day as Senior Civil Engineer

Today is my first day as a Senior Build Engineer at @playstationworks as one of their first employees for the newly created Preservation team!

Wildlife protection was my first professional passion, so I’m thrilled to be able to go back to these roots 😊

— Garrett Fredley (@SomeCronzaGuy) April 25, 2022

Today is my first day as a senior build engineer at PlayStation, one of their first appointments in the newly created curatorial department. Curating video games was my first professional passion, so I’m excited to return to my roots.

PlayStation: retro games where and for what?

What do we know about this new department? And well, in addition to its creation, not much. We therefore hope that PlayStation will communicate on this subject in the coming weeks or even days, even if we can have an idea of the different projects that this new team will undergo. For example, There are still questions about the PS VR 2 : We don’t know if PlayStation’s new virtual reality system, formalized earlier this year with Horizon: Call of the Mountain, will be compatible with the first PS VR games.

On the other hand, it is also the redesign of the PlayStation Plus that commits PlayStation to retro games: this new model is expected for June 22nd includes a subscription plan bonus

which offers the possibility to download PSP, PlayStation and PS2 games as well as stream PS3 and PS4 games. This formula is therefore committed to preserving the legacy of PlayStation.

An initiative not shared by all manufacturers: last February, Nintendo announced the closure of the digital stores for 3DS and Wii U, which should take place in 2023 and will make it impossible to buy or use credits in these stores. And in the frequently asked questions about this closure Nintendo says “do not plan anything in the future to resolve the situation“. An initiative that had provoked the anger of the Germans at the time Video Game Heritage Foundationwho blamed Big N for destroying video game history.