The PlayStation 5 backward compatibility with PlayStation 3 games, which is rumored to be in the works, may be held back by some important technical limitations related to the Cell processor that powered the console. The tech experts at Digital Foundry commented on the possibility of native emulation of the PlayStation 3 on the current generation console by Sony, highlighting how the system’s Cell processor’s SPUs co-processors could heavily hold back backward compatibility, as the whole processor doesn’t map well to modern x86 processors, and games making heavy use of SPUs could have significant performance issues, as it happens on […]
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