PlayStation News Sony researching a new Type of Backwards Compatibility?

While the Research for "PS2 Emulaton on PS4" is still in progress showing that there are already a lot of old "PS2 Classics compatible through Emulation", it seems that the officials from Sony (Interactive Entertainment America LLC) have their own research on how to present Backwards Compatibility for the future, according to their latest patent application.

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Not much is known at this moment due to the fact that there is no platform mentioned in this patent application. A Emulation of PS3 Titles running locally on the PS4 still sounds difficult - due to the complicated CELL B.E. processor used for the PS3 - and unrealistic since they would promote their PlayStation Now Service for that. It could be just a patent renewal for their actual Emulation process on PS3/PS4/VITA, so nothing special. But it could also be something completely new, even for a successor of the PS4 or even for Windows-Platforms etc. - no one knows.

Maybe the future will bring some more details. What do you think about the (secret) plans from Sony? Which console could be supported or which platform could be emulated?​

Source & Image Courtesy: twitter.com/Tidux/
Patent application : patft.uspto.gov​

 

Hehee

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My guess it will be only PS4 Backwards Compatible, since its rumored to use a X86 Zen-AMD (Probablly Custom), forget about PS3/PS2 and PS1, they will never deliver what we want

 

forget about PS3/PS2 and PS1, they will never deliver what we want

Yeah, I think that ship sailed when they removed backward compatibility from the ps3.

It's hard to argue that it's worth putting the development in when people still bought the ps3 when it couldn't run ps1 & ps2 games. Then bought the ps4 when it couldn't run ps1/ps2/ps3.

The best hope is cfw + homebrew emulators.