With PlayStation’s 30th anniversary just in our rearview mirror, there’s one era in the brand’s history that still feels remarkably underrepresented in today’s gaming landscape. While Xbox has committed to backward compatibility and Nintendo has grown its collection of classic titles available via the Switch’s online service, Sony’s taken the more limited route of releasing just a handful of its pre-PS4 titles. Among them, nearly none are games that were released on the PlayStation 3.
Thankfully, that could change soon according to developer Implicit Conversions. In a roadmap featured on its official website, the company has a “PlayStation 3 Emulator” listed as being researched and prototyped. If this were any other development team, this would be easy to write off as one of many PS3 emulator projects in the ether. But Implicit Conversions has helped Sony bring original PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games to PS5 via PlayStation Plus in the past. Considering its history, there could be something more in store for down the line.
