The PlayStation 5's mark on the gaming industry so far is yet to be measured, but it got off to a fairly interesting start with stock issues and some early UI woes. Now, modders are focusing their attention on the past.
According to a report from YouTuber Lowest Logan, the PS5 can run PS3 games. According to the report, for whatever reason, Sony allegedly does not allow access to that layer of backward compatibility.
To understand this debacle, you need to go back to the launch of the PlayStation 3. It was an open secret that the hardware architecture was notoriously difficult to develop for and eventually emulate. Despite putting out a chunk of good games on the system, it's been a spot on Sony's legacy ever since, from a hardware perspective.
Fast-forward to the present, and folks are still having issues with the PS3. The PS5 notoriously doesn't offer native backward compatibility with the system (instead relying on cloud architecture), but now some modders think they've cracked the code.
Lowest Logan posited, while setting up hardware similar to a PS5, that PS3 games can run on the PS5. They ultimately downgraded the Linux...
