In the current Star Wars madness, you might have downloaded a Star Wars bundle on the PS4 (Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Racer Revenge, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter) — and you might have noticed that those games aren’t exactly ports. If you’ve ever used emulators, you’d know something fishy is going on.
Digital Foundry has sliced and diced the games and revealed that the games are, indeed, running on emulation software that is also considerably upscaling the resolution and making everything run at butter smooth 60fps.
With the outbreak, Sony eventually had to admit that they’re cooking something rather big:
“We are working on utilizing PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation. We have nothing further to comment at this point in time.”
I was an owner of the PS2 so this is exciting news to me, although I might not immediately re-purchase all the games I had from the PS2 days. It’s also unclear whether this technology also allows PS3 games to run on the PS4. It isn’t true backwards compatibility — for example, if you own a game on the X360, you don’t need to pay for it again to play on the XOne — but again, Sony is keeping hush-hush on the topic entirely.
All we know is that, for now, PS2 emulation is coming. Whether PS3 will also be emulated, and whether this is available for all or some games, or whether you’ll have to pay for games you owned is something to know about in the future.
So, which PS2 game are you looking forward to play again on the PS4?
