More PS5 games are heading to PC despite Sony's boycott of the platform
Topics: PlayStation, PlayStation 5, PC
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Topics: PlayStation, PlayStation 5, PC
The PlayStation 5’s first-party exclusives are a limited offering, but still good quality. They’re not going to be exclusive for much longer, as gamers find new ways to make them playable on PC.
When it announced the end of physical media production, PlayStation inadvertently confirmed the launch window of the PlayStation 6 at the same time.
With the PlayStation 5’s ‘death day’ now locked in for 2028, many are taking a look back on Sony Interactive Entertainment’s games this generation, while finding new ways to play them.
The world of emulation has been celebrating several breakthroughs as of late, such as a new decompilation tool that’ll make it easier than ever to create fully-functional, heavily modified, PlayStation 3 games playable on PC. It’s great timing considering the console’s digital store will be closing in 2027.
Another breakthrough, however, is a new PlayStation 5 emulator called SharpEmu.
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As you’d probably guessed, it allows you to play PlayStation 5 games on PC, but it’s still in the early stages at the moment, so there are still plenty of bugs to iron out.
One of its most successful feats so far has been a ‘PC port’ of none other than Demon Souls, one of the PlayStation 5’s launch titles.
The life of Demon Souls began in 2004, before it was greenlit and entered production in 2006, intended to be PlayStation’s answer to the hit Xbox RPG The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. It was well-received and kicked off what we now know as the soulsborne genre, led by FromSoftware, which eventually brought us Elden Ring.
SharpEmu wasn't able to run a playable version of the game, but it was able to at least boot it up, which is more impressive than it sounds.
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Like we said, it’s still in the early stages of development at the moment, and it’s going to take a bit more elbow grease before more PlayStation 5 games will be playable on PC.
The work will definitely be worth it; however, PlayStation has no plans to support PC platforms for the foreseeable future.
We got plenty of official ports like God of War (2018), Marvel’s Spider-Man, and The Last of Us Part 1, but PlayStation clearly didn’t consider them successful enough to keep going.
There are dark days ahead for PlayStation users. Despite the boycotts and public outrage on social media, PlayStation shows no signs of doing a U-turn on its cull of physical media.
The PlayStation 3 store is also set to be shut down in 2027, which is bad news for some of the digital-only exclusives that’ll then become lost media.
There’s thankfully a bit of light left at the end of the tunnel. Gamers who actually care about this hobby are hard at work to not only preserve the titles we know and love, but also make them playable on as many platforms as possible, like your home PC.
Once it’s working properly, SharpEmu is going to be a literal game-changer, and we’re excited about the first, fully-playable game running through its software.