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Ex-Sony Exec Says PC Ports of Old PS5 Games Are Almost Like Printing Money (www.pushsquare.com)
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Imagine if you released your entire fucking thirty year old library.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    PS4 and PS5 games are much easier to port to PC since those consoles are essentially PC hardware.

    Older games need to be rebuilt for completely different hardware, so it's actually a lot more work. Not to say it wouldn't be nice, but it's not as easy and may not be worth the money, and there is less interest for a lot of that stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Old enough games can be emulated and run just fine. There's already emulators for everything, Sony could build their own and just embed the game inside and it wouldn't be much bigger than most other games.

    I think it has more to do with license than technical issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    To be fair to at least ps2/x games, there would probably be nothing stopping them from taking something like one of the popular open source emulators, shutting them down, and then hiring anyone they can from the project to work on an official emulator on their end that allows you to play the games on PC in an official manner. Or at least if you purchase individual titles.

    But like you said, probably not worth the time or money.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I would love if they brought the Jak & Daxter and Sky Cooper games to PC. Along with the entire Infamous series while we're at it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Good news! There's a community open source project to port the engine used in Jak and Daxter to PC.

    https://opengoal.dev/

    Looks like the first two games are mostly playable, with their efforts focused on getting Jak 3 working now.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I finally got it installed on my PC. The first one runs flawlessly, and I haven't tried Jak 2 yet.

    I also got PCSX2 and the first three Sly Cooper games, Jak 3, Time Splitters, and Superman Returns. I think I'm gonna go and download a bunch of old PS2 games to play

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Turns out you don't actually need OpenGOAL to play the Jak series if you already have an emulator, but it's like playing the game as if it was actually ported to PC.

    And I gotta say Jak 1 looks gorgeous.

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