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What you’re saying is true, but if it can run on a PC with similar power as the PS5, I think Sony could do better than what they’re doing right now.
I mean they have access to way more infos than peopoe creating an emulator.
But it's not "some games" that matter, and it's not "mostly works". That's the issue.
To justify it as not actively harming their brand, it needs to be the premier PlayStation exclusives, and it needs to be pretty damn high quality at all those games that went hard on low level hardware feature usage.
I agree with you and maybe not every game would be compatible with official PS5 emulation.
For now we can give Sony the benefit of the doubt, but if the PS6 comes with a disc drive and Sony is still not able to offer PS3 emulation, then we’ll be able to say that they just don’t care.
The only games that move the needle at all are the ones that are incredibly hard to emulate because they basically need exact clock for clock, bug for bug replication. Advertising "PS3 support" without the hard games would be negative value for them by misleading and upsetting customers.
It's not an issue of power. Emulating exotic hardware is genuinely difficult to do.