While we haven’t heard a full, official statement regarding the PS5’s lack of native backward compatibility functionality beyond its support of most PS4 games, Sony has addressed this issue before. That being said, the fact you can play retro PlayStation games on the Xbox Series X/S via even an unofficial emulator does raise some interesting questions about the PS5’s comparatively limited backward compatibility functionality. That means that even when an emulated game runs fairly well on the Xbox, it won’t run nearly as well as the list of titles officially supported by Microsoft’s next-gen console. Early tests indicate that these emulators can’t properly utilize the Xbox Series X/S SSD and other next-gen features. This issue is further complicated by the fact that this method of emulation is not only unofficial (and, we should remind you, potentially illegal and generally inadvisable for many users) but that it doesn’t really utilize the full power of these next-gen consoles. That being the case, many PS2 games will not run well on the Xbox Series X/S and some will not run at all. The PS2 emulation software the Xbox Series X/S is capable of running is barely functional and was just reasonably deemed acceptable for more public testing. We say “technically possible” because the necessary software is in the early stages of development. As you can see in the video above, though, it’s technically possible to play PS2 games on Xbox right now. The fact that the PlayStation 2 features one of the best console libraries ever should be enough to get you excited by even the possibility of playing PS2 games on a modern console, but what makes this particular reveal so impressive is the fact that even optimistic analysts thought it would be months before PS2 games would be playable on the Xbox Series X/S via these backdoor methods.
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