A community-led game preservation project known as RPCS3, which started in 2011, has now announced that it can successfully run over 75% of PlayStation 3 games on PC. The news is important because of several recent developments and controversial decisions by Sony that could affect the future of PlayStation 3 games.
On July 1, 2026, Sony made two critical announcements. It revealed that the PS3 Store would become unavailable to all users by 2027. It was also unveiled that PlayStation would no longer receive new physical discs starting in January 2028. Both announcements were seen as a direct attack on game preservation efforts. However, thanks to years of work by dedicated developers, fans might be able to preserve many of their PS3 games long after the digital store shuts down.
PlayStation 3 has one more surprise for its users, even over 20 years after it first came out, and it's not something most gamers would have used.
In a recent tweet, RPCS3 announced that over 75% of PlayStation 3 games on its list are playable on PC without any game-breaking issues. Approximately 23% can run on a PC but "either can't be finished, have serious glitches,...
