PlayStation Has Reportedly Created a Preservation Team, Fueling PS3 Emulation on PS5 Rumors
The PlayStation 5 can play almost every single PlayStation 4 game, which doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it is when juxtaposed against the PS4, which couldn’t natively play any PS3 titles. PS1 games were left out entirely and only a small handful of PS2 games could be downloaded from the store. However, it seems as though Sony is looking to buff up its preservation efforts across the board with a new team it has allegedly created.
As spotted in a ResetEra post that was then linked to on Reddit, PlayStation Senior Build Engineer Garrett Fredley posted on his LinkedIn page about joining the newly created Game Preservation team. According to his profile, he just joined this group within PlayStation in April 2022.
He elaborated in a post saying that April 25 was his first day on the job and that game preservation was his first career passion. Fredley also did a detailed talk at the Game Developer’s Conference in 2019 about game preservation, showing his familiarity with the topic. This was during his time at Electronic Arts where he “solely [led] the preservation efforts for the franchise” and also “used Powerpoint to advocate the importance and complexity of preservation to Artist and Audio leadership.” He’s also credited on multiple titles.
A team focused on preservation seemingly works with another report saying that Sony was looking into PS3 emulation on the PS5. Around 15 minutes into the April 1 episode of VentureBeat report Jeff Grubb’s Games Mess podcast, Grubb stated that “it sounds like Sony might be working on emulation for PS3 for PS5.” He then said that it “might take some time,” which is understandable given the scope of such a project.
This comes in the wake of Sony taking its back catalog more seriously.
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