In recent days we have informed you of the possibility that Sony, according to a recent indiscretion from The Gamer, he intends to close the stores dedicated to the games of PS3 e PS Vita in the next months. But do not despair, it would seem that the Japanese giant intends to surprise (positively) its fans and owners of PlayStation 5 with the addition of a highly anticipated feature, namely backward compatibility to PS1, Ps2 and PlayStation 3 titles.
Last 18 March the company would have filed a new patent called "Method and apparatus for awarding trophies", which, although at first glance it may seem uninteresting, reveals within it the ability to award trophies for emulated games, and the only "legacy" titles that the Japanese house would emulate in 2021 would be those PS1, Ps2 and PS3. Although the patent in question makes no specific reference to PlayStation 5, and consequently to the actual support of the new Sony flagship for the titles of the previous consoles, inside it presents (in addition to a myriad of technicalities) some references to emulation:
A computer-implemented method awards one or more trophies to a user. A game is emulated in response to a request from a client device. A trophy is detected during game emulation by comparing an emulated game memory value with a predetermined value, awarding one or more trophies to the user based on the trophy detected.
At the moment Sony has not yet expressed itself on the matter, so it is not clear whether the patent in question actually refers to an extension of the backward compatibility of PS5, which in this way would not be compatible exclusively with PlayStation 4 games, but also with those PS1, Ps2 and PS3. Therefore, we advise you to take the information contained in the patent with due precautions, given that very often the plans of companies are suddenly turned upside down.
Waiting to find out more details on the subject, we remind you that PlayStation 5 made its official debut last year November 19 2020, and although it is difficult to find at the moment, in the coming months the company could stabilize stocks in warehouses. At the following link you can find ours review complete.
