It really doesn't as you can't play PS2 games you previously purchased with it, you can only play the ones bought for the PS4. So if you have discs or PS2 Classics for the PS3, it doesn't matter. So from the point of view of "Does Sony have a PS2 emulator?" the answer is yes, but "Does PS4 have PS2 BC?" it's no.
Just to give you an idea of how bad things are, the Xbox One and One X have a dev mode, where for $20 you can install third-party unsigned and open-source software. This includes a port of Retroarch meant specifically for Xbox. Presumably the XSX will retain that. Retroarch includes excellent emulators for the PS1 and PSP, as well as an okay one for PS2 (Play!, not PCSX2). And it's possible someone might port PCSX2 and RPCS3 to the Xbox app.going xbox because ps5 wont play ps1-3 games
Those games run natively on the hardware. For example when you insert a PS4 game disk on PS5 the game will install from the bluray. On Xbox for og Xbox games and 360 games, when you insert a DVD disk of og Xbox or 360, the game is downloaded off MS servers. Xbox one games also run natively, so there is no license issue there.
Everyone buying a PS5 (or 4, honestly) has voted they don't care really.
What's happening with Nintendo is terrible for Nintendo, emulator writers, and fans working on certain mods, since the latter two can no longer easily claim their works were clean-room reverse engineered. It has nothing to do with what we're talking about here, since we're literally simply asking Sony to preserve their own platforms.
I'm sure the powers that be at Sony are aware of people's interest in BC but I'm also sure the next thing they do is point to the millions and millions of PS4s they've sold that don't do that, and millions of sold copies of *such and such* Remastered.
Aside from the already existing 360/OG BC, I'm not seeing how this is a point to make. BC from the current gen is baked into both the XS* and PS5, the XS* benefits from the work done on the One, but that's about it. As it is the OG games added to BC for the one are mostly just things that themselves were already BC with the 360, with a few exceptions both adding and subtracting from the number.
The point is that there is nothing wrong to have old games available since at the end of the day is different teams that can't do the other thing meaning the people that do new games will never ve involved in ports" also there is always new people that has never played games before, the point is that saying that you don't want ports because it takes away from new games is ridiculous and shows no understanding of how both are made
Downplaying the efforts of hard working devs is stupid, no way around it. You try too hard to paint it as console wars.
Heh, when I worked at SCEE and attended the company conference the year they revealed the PS4, he had a slide comparing it to the PS3 and went on about how beautiful the PS4 was and what a piece of shit the PS3 looked like.
X1 lets you play discs or digital copies you already own, the PS4 does not. Those PS2 games might as well be crappy PS4 ports as far as BC goes.
