Although the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog does make it doable to play choose PS3 video games on PS5, presently, that’s solely doable by way of cloud streaming, although it’s being claimed that native backward compatibility for PS3 titles could possibly be coming to Sony’s current-gen console quickly.
The identical was claimed in a latest episode of the XboxEra Podcast by XboxEra co-founder Nick Baker, whereas journalist Jeff Grubb additionally made related claims on his Big Bomb podcast, Recreation Mess Mornings. Allegedly, native emulation of PS3 titles on PS5 is being labored on at Sony, although when precisely that can be made accessible to customers worldwide stays to be seen.
Curiously, this isn’t the primary time that such rumours have emerged. Grubb made claims that native PS3 emulation was within the works for PS5 again in 2022 as properly.
If native emulation of PS3 titles does turn out to be accessible on PS5, that would doubtlessly unencumber a big variety of fan-favourite titles which were shackled to the PS3’s library completely for years, together with the likes of Steel Gear Strong 4: Weapons of Liberty, Killzone 2 and 3, Insomniac Video games’ Resistance trilogy, and extra.
