


Console owners now have access to over 100 classic titles, and they can just insert their original disc to play them on the new machine. The latter is the route Microsoft has taken with its Xbox One backward compatibility. Will Sony just be making a handful of classic titles available for digital download, or will it build a fully functioning emulator allowing players to load their old PS2 discs into the PS4? We have nothing further to comment at this point in time.” It’s not clear, then, what form the emulation will take. In an email to Wired, a sony representative has stated: “We are working on utilising PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation.

It’s what veteran gamers have been asking for, but what Sony once said would probably never happen: the company is working on a PlayStation 2 emulator for PlayStation 4.
