Sony stated at the reveal of the PlayStation 4 that the company’s goal was to have the entirety of the PlayStation catalog playable on the system at some point, despite confirming the system would have no native backwards compatibility at launch. The company’s game streaming service, PlayStation Now, was initially believed to be the answer to this, but it seems that perhaps Sony will soon be using native backwards compatibility to allow players to play older titles, as it appears that backwards compatibility for PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games could be on its way to the PlayStation 4.
Eurogamer is reporting that a Sony source currently working within the company’s PlayStation department has confirmed that PlayStation Now, is currently only being scheduled to stream PlayStation 3 games, while PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles are being set to run through local emulation on the PlayStation 4, but could potentially benefit from HD enhancements.
Eurogamer’s source claims that the PlayStation 4 will use emulation similar to that the PS3 uses in order to play downloadable classic games in order to open up the backlog of the first two PlayStation consoles. The source also says that Sony is working to fix the blurred upscaling that some PS2 and PS1 games suffered from when running on the PS3.
The source didn’t confirm when PS4 players could expect to see such a feature on the console, but if this comes to fruition, it could completely eradicate the complaints that consumers have had regarding not being able to play old PlayStation games on the otherwise prosperous system.
(Source: Eurogamer)