A recently filed patent could indicate additional unannounced details about Sony?s PS5 backwards compatibility strategy and keeping its 25-year library of games alive. One of the longest-running requests throughout the years for PlayStation faithful has been true and easy backward compatibility, to little or no avail. Sure, there was that model of the PS3 that could play PS1 and PS2 games and there?s even been a push from Sony to include more PS2-era offerings as digital game purchases, but it simply isn?t the same as native backward compatibility with our old games. While we?re remiss to compliment Microsoft too much here at PlayStation LifeStyle, its backward compatibility push in the past few years to not only allow the playing of old Xbox games but to, in some cases, improve them, is an attractive selling point and one that creates some true FOMO for Sony consumers who just want to pop in an older title. If a patent filed recently by Sony in Japan is any indicator the company could be looking to make emulation inroads that would allow PS1, PS2, and PS3 emulation through cloud streaming.
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A series of tweets from Japanese user @Renka_schedule reveal a newly filed patent by Sony Japan that appears to show emulation of PS1, PS2, and PS3 games onto various screens throug...