but yeah the ps2 should be able to handle the emulation of these system, assuming the drive can even read these formats. If it cannot than there always digital versions
I've been hearing this over and over and over again, but does anyone actually has actual data that hardware for some reason can't play CDs anymore or if it just "Durr, I put audio CD there and it didn't work, hurr, and PS1 game said unsupported media" comments?
Great news but kinda confused for the moment ever since Digital Foundry said the PS2 emulation has increase resolution? Do you think this would also apply if Sony were to support the disc format?
If it's legit emulation, then games should be identical no matter where they are from (outside some minor cosmetic data for consoles UI with digital version so you can see what game it is).
To be honest, I've had nothing but trouble with PS2 emulation over the past few years; it's just a big pain for me.
An official emulator from Sony wouldn't be as problematic considering they know their own hardware inside and out.
Oh yeah, this is exactly why I'm excited about this!
It's much easier to just sit on sofa, boot up the game and everything works. Of course emulation is still viable way to play the titles, but it does require some setting up and is not living room friendly.
This. Sony had the golden opportunity to allow their PS3 users back then to simply use the PS2 discs to enable the emulation of X game but instead they charged for each and every one of them. I really doubt Sony will be any different this time around and folks around here are just building up excitement that likely will end up in a grand disappointment.
I'm assuming situation being slightly differend. With PS3, PS2 was still being manufactured and sold and PS3 model with backwards compatibility was a thing, after years passed those were out from the game, so cherry picked PS2 classic titles made it easy to make sure that game worked perfectly and generally keep things under control.
Now they have much more powerful system and much more knowledge how to emulate PS2 and consumers who have tons of PS2 games and ways to play them decreases all the time as old hardware keeps getting broken (and of course Sony can't rely on emulators on PC).
Of course they can take the somewhat douchebag way of selling PS2 games under same "PS2 classic" title as crossbuy with PS3 and trough Playstation Now. People without physical games will buy the games happily either way, but that group with already physical games gets mad and they would lose potential console buyer because even if they are really old games, that does significantly raise PS4 value for some consumers.
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