PlayStation 5 owners want to be able to run games from PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 – GameSpot poll

The ability to buy and run games with Playstation, Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 through PS Store on the Playstation 5 high on the wishlist of the next generation console users from Sony… This is evidenced by the results of a large-scale survey conducted by an English-language publication. GameSpotIt was attended by 93 thousand PlayStation 5 owners from around the world

Reporters asked the buyers of the new system about the features, software improvements and innovations that they would like to receive on the PlayStation 5. The results are as follows:

  • The ability to organize content into folders – 7%
  • The ability to quickly switch between several running games at once – an analogue of Quick Resume from Microsoft – sixteen%
  • PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 games on PSN – 72%
  • Other – four%

PlayStation 5 is currently only backward compatible with Playstation 4while on Xbox Series X | S it is possible with improvements to run not only games with Xbox onebut also selected hits with Xbox 360 and Xbox

In the comments, some players write that they are ready to understand the difficulties with the software for the PlayStation 3 (difficult architecture for emulation), but do not understand why you cannot buy games on the PS5 from the first two PlayStation consoles.

“PS1 came out almost 30 years ago. Emulators have been working on phones for a long time, but not on PS5. Why?” One fan asked.

Players are urging Sony and its partners to manually adapt the classics to work on the PlayStation 5, if the emulator cannot be created.

Many also remember Sony Interactive Entertainment incumbent Jim Ryan’s controversial comment on backward compatibility on consoles

“Recently I was at one of the Gran Turismo events, which featured games from PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. The games for the first and second PlayStation seemed ancient. Why would anyone play it today?“, – he said in 2017.

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