Sony Job Listing Suggests That Emulated PS3 Games Could Be Coming To PS5
PS3 games might just be coming to PS5 according to a newly posted job listing at Sony. The company is looking to hire a Software Development Engineer specialized in “emulation of legacy PlayStation platforms.”
PlayStation Plus for PS4 and PS5 currently features a large library of older games, but the catch is that when it comes to PS3 titles, players have to make do with streaming rather than emulation. While the former is perfectly acceptable for some players, the latter would allow for greatly improved performance on the current generation console.
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The possibility of emulation at some point in the very near future seems fairly substantial given the recent job listing at Sony. Whoever gets the position is going to be joining the “Tools and Technology team at PlayStation Studios to support the newly relaunched Classics for PS4 and PS5.” This adds that “classic games run via emulation of legacy PlayStation platforms. As a Classics engineer, you would work closely with a group of other engineers, producers, and quality assurance teams to fix bugs, add new features, and develop new emulators.”
Since the other “legacy PlatStation platforms” hardly need emulating, speculators have been suggesting that whoever Sony ultimately hires will be working on PS3 titles.
The job listing notes a number of “must haves” including “experience developing cross-platform software for games consoles and desktop PCs” and “carving out automated solutions that scale to thousands of similar products” along with several “nice to haves” like “hands on experience with double-A or triple-A game development for PlayStation consoles” and “bash scripting
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