PlayStation 3 emulation has come a long way since the
developers of emulator RPCS3 began their journey in 2011. Now, a decade later,
the team has announced that every game ever released for the Sony console will
now boot on PC.
Spotted by Kotaku, the PRCS3 team announced yesterday that
there are now zero games that straight-up won't boot in the emulator. That's a
major milestone cleared, though it doesn't mean your favourite PS3 classics are
all completely playable quite yet.
As per RPCS3's tweet, the emulator rates games based on how
far it's able to run them. What today's announcement means is that there are
zero games that flat-out won't initialise at all, though there are still around
6 games that only display a black screen. On the upside, just over 2,000 games
(around 63.5%) are marked as "playable", which means they should be
working as intended.
Sony has been historically very reluctant to bring its
catalogue to PC, and huge swathes of the PS3's catalogue never made it over to
desktop. But that's an approach Sony has slowly been turning around, with
prestige PlayStation titles like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Death Stranding making
their way to PC in recent years. This week, Sony that even announced that God
of War will be making its way over next January.
That said, with the exception of maybe Uncharted, it's hard
to imagine Sony reaching as far back as the PS3 for PC ports. Whether you're
looking to revisit the original Demon's Souls or simply have an unexplainable
need to see PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale running on your desktop,
emulation's probably your best bet.
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