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Ex-Sony Exec Says PC Ports of Old PS5 Games Are Almost Like Printing Money (www.pushsquare.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

PS4 and PS5 games are much easier to port to PC since those consoles are essentially PC hardware.

Older games need to be rebuilt for completely different hardware, so it's actually a lot more work. Not to say it wouldn't be nice, but it's not as easy and may not be worth the money, and there is less interest for a lot of that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

To be fair to at least ps2/x games, there would probably be nothing stopping them from taking something like one of the popular open source emulators, shutting them down, and then hiring anyone they can from the project to work on an official emulator on their end that allows you to play the games on PC in an official manner. Or at least if you purchase individual titles.

But like you said, probably not worth the time or money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Old enough games can be emulated and run just fine. There's already emulators for everything, Sony could build their own and just embed the game inside and it wouldn't be much bigger than most other games.

I think it has more to do with license than technical issues.